Where are the leaves?
The titan arum produces one leaf at a time for several years. The leaves start out small and get progressively larger. The leaf photosynthesizes and allows the plant to store energy in a large underground tuber. Each leaf lasts about a year before dying back and going dormant. Because flowering takes so much energy, it takes several years (10+ years) of just producing leaves and storing energy before the plant has enough reserves to produce a flower.
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