Monday, April 13, 2009

What is the rarest blooming flower? I am talking about a flower that perhaps blooms once in 1000 yrs?

I have searched and could only find the century plant (site below) and quotes regarding the once in a thousand year bloomer. One of the rarest I have known is the corpse flower.


(site below)





It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years Perhaps we never knew about them simply because this %26quot;once in a thousand years%26quot; has come only today?





- D-503, the hero in Yevgeny Zamyatin%26#039;s We, 1920-1921


Twenty-Third Entry


Mirra Ginsburg, trans., 1972





http://www.desertusa.com/feb97/du_pcentu...


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
What is the rarest blooming flower? I am talking about a flower that perhaps blooms once in 1000 yrs?
Agave (century plant) blooms once every 18 years or more.super nanny

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