The rare New Guinea Tongue Orchid, taking host in the Ken Burgess Orchid House, is getting ready to flower, with botanic lovers waiting patiently.
This Orchid is the Orchid’s House’s most infamous plant, and is a member of the Bulbophyllum fletcherianum, but is better known as ‘Stinky’, due to the eye-watering stench that accompanies its flower.
The flowers of the orchid resemble rotting flesh both in look and smell, but serve the important role of attracting flies, who believe they are laying their eggs in actual rotting flesh.
The flowering of the orchid is short lived, so flower lovers must be quick to pay the Ken Burgess Orchid House a visit!
Ken Burgess Orchid House, Queens Park, open Sundays, 10am to 2pm and Monday to Friday, 10am to 11am and 2 to 3pm.
Closed Saturdays and public holidays
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