This is the moment Western tourists appear to damage a rare flower that takes years of cultivation to bloom in Indonesia.<br /><br />Video from Agam in West Sumatra's Pandan forest shows the foreigners, believed to be from the UK and South Korea, inspecting the Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the corpse flower. <br /><br />One tourist in a chequered shirt and glasses can be seen using a piece of sharpened bamboo to poke the flower. <br /><br />The filmer of the video calls out to the tourists, who immediately stop interfering with the flower. <br /><br />The tourists had reportedly told their guide they were carrying out research on the plant, which is native to the Western Sumatra region. <br /><br />Photos of the flower show a deep wound on the plant's stem and that a petal had been damaged. <br /><br />The tourists reportedly received a warning and escaped without charge, according to local guides.<br /><br />The Corpse Flower is so named because it gives off a rancid smell once it blooms, which occurs after seven to ten years of growth. <br /><br />The cadaver-like odour attracts flies and beetles, which get trapped in the flower and get covered in pollen.
