Stink Alert!

From: "Craig Allen" callen at fairchildgarden.org> on 2001.05.15 at 03:43:45(6457) You can smell the Amorphophallus titanum from the employee parking lot 100's of feet away. I bet the neighbors across the street are going to be wondering what's going on. 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.fairchildgarden.org

From: Paul Tyerman ptyerman at ozemail.com.au> on 2001.05.15 at 15:27:44(6463) Howdy All, Sorry to ask yet another question......... How old is Mr Stinky? How old does an Amorphophallus titanum have to be to flower? For that matter, how old do the other species need to be to flower (I'm talking from seed to flowering here)? I realise that A. bulbifer grows bulbils which are easier than seed.... but how many years does it take the bulbils to reach maturity? I realised looking at all those different ones at the Fairchild site that I have absolutely no idea at all. I've got so many questions about them now. How much do the tubers of the variosu species usually weigh when they get to flowering size? Ok... I'l stop now. You can see that this has gotten to me a bit. I just wish I could see them in person. Does anyone know if there are any mature specimens of A. titanum and A. gigas in Australia? Cheers. Paul Tyerman +More Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8 mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Lilium, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!

From: "Michael Pascall" mickpascall at hotmail.com> on 2001.05.16 at 16:20:22(6472) Paul, some Amorphophallus spp. can grow and flower very quickly . A. henryi recvd from Wilbert as seed in 1996 , grew well and flowered and set seed in only 4 years . Though our tropical climate may have helped a bit . Seed of A galbra I planted in late December , has amazed me by producing a tuber of over 1 cm in a little over 4 months . I am certain that the Sydney Botanical Gardens has a very large A titanum. And several other spp. And I am preying that Craig gets his A gigas to set seed again , so some can come 'down under'. Michael Pascall,,WHYANBEEL ARBORETUM,F.N.Q,AUSTRALIA +More _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

From: Al Wootten awootten at NRAO.EDU> on 2001.05.17 at 04:44:22(6481) Paul Tyerman writes: > > Howdy All, > > Sorry to ask yet another question......... > > How old is Mr Stinky? How old does an Amorphophallus titanum have to be to > flower? For that matter, how old do the other species need to be to flower > (I'm talking from seed to flowering here)? I realise that A. bulbifer > grows bulbils which are easier than seed.... but how many years does it > take the bulbils to reach maturity? I realised looking at all those > different ones at the Fairchild site that I have absolutely no idea at all. Actually, I found A. bulbifer about the same from seed as from bulbils but perhaps others have larger bulbils than mine. And I still await my first flower (I did see one at MOBOT a few years ago). BTW... +More A. konjac is now leafing out. Alas, my D. vulgaris had collapsed when I returned from my trip. I hope it isn't at the Pearly Gates. And although I couldn't stay on my return flight (the plane kept on to Miami) and see the A. titanum there, my summer research student from last year sent me some pix from U. Washington, which I share at http://chesapeake_al.tripod.com/atitanum.html as I cannot recall my password for my usual www site. I wonder whatever happened to the one at Brooklyn which bloomed in the 30s? Clear skies, Al +---------------------------------------------------------+ |Al Wootten, Slacktide, Sturgeon Creek at the Rappahannock| |Astronomer (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/) | |genealogy homepage http://members.tripod.com/~astral | |Deltaville, Virginia (804)776-6369 | +---------------------------------------------------------+

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