Titan Arum flowers

Here's the timelapse film of the Titan Arum flowering. The giant specimen of the world's biggest, smelliest flower burst into bloom in August at Eden. The extremely rare Titan arum, known as the corpse flower due to its revolting smell, wowed visitors in the sultry depths of the Malaysia area in Eden's Rainforest Biome - the biggest greenhouse in the world.

Astonishingly, this is the fourth time skilled horticulturist Tim Grigg of the Eden Green Team has nurtured a titan to flower. At a whopping 212cm, it's the second biggest example of the plant he has grown. It lasted two or three days before wilting.

The plant - real name Amorphophallus titanum - hails from Sumatra. Tim Grigg has been growing titans at Eden's Watering Lane nursery for nine years from a batch of seeds donated by Bonn Botanical Garden in Germany.