BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 05:24:00
You could actually smell it outside our conservatory probably more than you could inside, so it's quite remarkable, actually, how it pushes away from the flower. yes, we're seeing some brilliant pictures of the flower there and the queues of people going past it. what is the purpose of its odour? it's all about pollination. this plant took us ten years to bring it into flower and it has only actually has one night that it can get pollinated. in the wild, it can't — the flower can't pollinate itself, so it needs to engage an insect to actually bring the pollen to it, so an insect may be in a ...