"We predicted that at 9 or 10 pm it will blooming will be full," head of the Bogor Botanical Garden Information Section Rismita Sari said here Monday.
She said that to follow the growth of the flower from bud to fully blooming she have prepared a recording equipment, and in the process several garden security personnel are also deployed to supervise and monitor the blooming of the flower.
She said the blooming of the flower has been monitored since yesterday`s afternoon.
Mita said that in the blooming of the flower it has already giving out a bad smell up to a radius of 10 meters.
The bud of the flower which came from Jambi appeared for the first time on Sunday (July 3). It was predicted that its tuber has been growing since last month.
When first found, the flower`s bud had a height of 1.26 meterr, and in the first week it reached 1.67 meters.
"Right now it has reached 1.8 meters," Mita said.
(KR-LR)
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