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Titan arum's pebble-sized red, oval fruits appear nine months after fertilisation, and each contain two seeds. In the wild they are eaten and spread by birds such as rhinoceros hornbills.
Titan Arum, or Amorphophallus titanum, is also known as the corpse flower. Native to the equatorial rainforests of western Indonesia, it is known for its enormous proportions and its off-putting ...
The corpse flower, also known as the titan arum, is seen before it bloomed at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2013. The flower, which is from the rainforest of Indonesia ...
Titan Arum, or Amorphophallus titanum, is also known as the corpse flower. Native to the equatorial rainforests of western Indonesia, it is known for its enormous proportions and its off-putting ...
Only a few hundred Titan arum exist, mostly in botanical gardens. UC Berkeley's garden has a dozen of the plants, all from the same seeds collected in 1995 in Sumatra. The last one bloomed in 2009.
The titan arum's inflorescence can reach over 10 feet in height and weigh as much as 170 pounds. An inflorescence is a cluster of smaller individual flowers, like a daisy or sunflower.
A titan arum, the rock star of the plant world, bloomed over Easter weekend at the Biological Sciences greenhouse at Ohio State University. According to the university, fewer than 100 titans have ...
Giant, rare and smelly: Titan Arum plant blossoms into a 10ft flower that stinks of rotting meat It's hold-your-nose time at Paington Zoo Environmental Park, where gardeners have tended the ...
The titan arum currently in bloom for the third time, named Sumatra, last flowered in 2017. A second flower, Spike, is set to bloom for the fourth time in the coming week.
Our Titan first bloomed in 2005, and then again in 2008, and remains the only Titan Arum ever to bloom in Massachusetts. The Titan Arum, known colloquially as the “corpse flower,” is native to the ...
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