SIGMA BLOG | CORPSE FLOWER

Photographing the World’s Biggest (and Smelliest) Flower with the SIGMA 50mm F1.4 DG DN Art

“…The World’s Biggest Flower… and its other unique feature

So what makes this plant so unique? Well, she’s only naturally found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Just that alone makes her rare, but her growing habitat is also rapidly transforming, making her endangered as well.

Soon, the only Titan Arum plants remaining will likely be in botanical garden cultivation, which is a significant investment of time, space, and other resources that many garden collections can’t do.

She’s also, as I mentioned, huge. She’s technically not one giant flower. Instead, she’s the largest unbranched inflorescence, a tall multitude of tiny flowers.

If you have heard of her before, it’s because her reproduction cycle has a remarkable trick to fetch pollinators – which is to look, feel, and smell of death. A siren call to flies and other insects that rely on decomposition for their lifecycle. Which is where her common name “Corpse Flower” comes from…”


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