Titan Watch at Fairchild Tropical Garden

From: "Craig Allen" callen at fairchildgarden.org> on 2001.04.23 at 20:09:32(6248) Titan Watch 4/23/2001: Amorphophallus titanum (#83) = 19" tall. Leaf or bloom? Don't know yet, but I should any day now. A. gigas (#84) = 137" open and stinking. There are periodic waves of (dead animal) odor. Visitor keep missing the flower because it is up near the roof. A. paeoniifolius (#2741 & #2318) both opened this morning... little odor yet. Pretty dramatic when you see it potted on a bench and the flower is right in front of your face. One of the inflorescence is fairly small for this species. A. henryi (#2736) finished blooming, fading out. A. muellerii (#2743) open but fading. Anyone coming to the Aroid Society meeting this evening (Monday, April 23), will have a chance to visit the Conservatory and see the giant A. gigas from Sumatra in bloom. Craig M. Allen +More Conservatory Manager Fairchild Tropical Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road Coral Gables(Miami), Florida, USA 33156-4296 Tel. 305-667-1651 ext. 3320 Fax 305-661-8953 e-mail callen@fairchildgarden.org web: www.ftg.org

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