Rainforest Biome

This rare beauty is only open for 48 hours and attracts insect pollinators with its stench of rotting flesh. Our titan arums are currently in their leaf form as they flower about once a year. Look out for our social media updates for when they bloom.

This plant is the source of chocolate! Cacao pods come in many shapes, sizes and colours.

Endangered in the wild and even rarer to find in cultivation, we have two jade vines that you can occasionally see in our Rainforest.

Cultivated around the tropics, there are about 1,000 types of banana.

These carnivorous plants mainly catch insects, but some species have caught animals as large as small rodents.

Composed of 100-200 fused berry-like fruits, many people are surprised that pineapples grow on the ground.

This popular ice cream flavour is the second most expensive spice after saffron.

Arabica coffee dominates the world market and is regarded by most people as producing the highest quality beans.

Sugar cane sticks were first chewed for their sugary sap 10,000 years ago. Today we eat about 3kg a week each!

Palm oil is used in over 60% of our supermarket products from ice cream and crisps to soaps and lipstick.

Baobab trees can live for over 3,000 years. When they die, they rot inside and suddenly collapse!

These giant water lilypads can grow up to 2 metres wide, which help the plant win the competition for sunlight. 

The sensitive plant can move! Its leaves fold up at night and also when touched.