a press release by the university’s botanical garden, Leiden Hortus Botanicus.Employees at the garden noticed the plant's flowering bud in September.
The bud grew to be more than 3 feet tall, with a stem more than 6 feet high. The penis plant's scientific name is Amorphophallus decus-silvae, and it’s native to Indonesia.
The plant requires a very warm and humid environment to bloom — which explains why it hasn't bloomed often in Europe, much less the Netherlands.Predicting when the plant will flower is hard, but the smell of the flower can’t be missed even if it doesn’t bloom completely.
The flowering process has two parts. In the first, part of it heats up and begins emitting a smell the university compares to “rotting flesh.” Pollinators,.