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The one in Leiden, already an established plant when the garden obtained it, has been growing there for 6 years.
During the winter in areas where temperatures are too cold, plants should be brought inside where they will go dormant stop growing.
Visitors to the Hortus botanicus Leiden could climb a ladder to peer inside the flower, which was at the end of a 6 foot, 7 inch stem The pollen-covered flies then head off in search of another flowering plant to visit.