Brooklyn Titan blooming

From: "Horak, David" davidhorak at bbg.org> on 2006.08.18 at 15:17:44(14530) Dear All, Our Titan is done and the spadix collapsed, but thanks to the generous donation of pollen from Virginia Tech's division of Biological Sciences, we are waiting to see if our pollination attempts have succeeded. There was of course a tremendous amount of hype but that withstanding the public really embraced our little event. It was special in that it proved to many of us that plants and collections can compel the public to come to a garden and that you do not necessarily have to resort to song and dance nonsense to "entertain" folks. That said, the following link is a time lapse video put together by our web person of the blooming and really kind of fun. I guess that this can be construed to be a bit of "song and dance"...but oh, what the heck. http://www.bbg.org/vis2/2006/titan/video/index.html I also want to publicly express a note of appreciation, in this forum, to Alan Galloway who ten years ago generously donated this plant/seedling to the Garden. The craziness surrounding this kind of event (as many of you now have had the pleasure of experiencing) inadvertently short changed his role in this. This event is a testimony to the crucial role that hobbyists play in conservation and the dissemination of information and special plants. It can often be difficult to reciprocate, but botanical institutions do depend on your dedication, enthusiasm and generosity regardless of whether it is ever properly acknowledged. Alan made a lot of New Yorkers happy and I personally applaud him as well as all of you for the generosity of your knowledge, experience and plants. Thank you. We did harvest pollen, so if anyone has a need contact me and I will see what we can do. Dave Horak +More _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: Paul Tyerman ptyerman at ozemail.com.au> on 2006.08.19 at 13:35:30(14531) At 01:17 AM 19/08/2006, you wrote: Dear All, Our Titan is done and the spadix collapsed, but thanks to the generous donation of pollen from Virginia Tech's division of Biological Sciences, we are waiting to see if our pollination attempts have succeeded. There was of course a tremendous amount of hype but that withstanding the public really embraced our little event. It was special in that it Dave and all, Not sure if it is of interest or not, but your Titan was shown here on our news in Australia as well. So there was definitely hype. We have had a few news items at times on Titans blooming around the world. Always interesting to see them on the news, having already heard about them here on Aroid-L. Cheers. Paul Tyerman +More Canberra, Australia - USDA Zone Equivalent approx. 8/9 Growing an eclectic collection of plants from all over the world including Aroids, Crocus, Cyclamen, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Galanthus, Irises, Trilliums (to name but a few) and just about anything else that doesn't move!! _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: "Ertelt, Jonathan B" jonathan.ertelt at Vanderbilt.Edu> on 2006.08.19 at 17:23:21(14532) David, Very nicely presented, both images and words. Thanks. Jonathan +More > Dear All, > > Our Titan is done and the spadix collapsed, but thanks to the generous > donation of pollen from Virginia Tech's division of Biological Sciences, > we are waiting to see if our pollination attempts have succeeded. There > was of course a tremendous amount of hype but that withstanding the > public really embraced our little event. It was special in that it > proved to many of us that plants and collections can compel the public > to come to a garden and that you do not necessarily have to resort to > song and dance nonsense to "entertain" folks. That said, the following > link is a time lapse video put together by our web person of the > blooming and really kind of fun. I guess that this can be construed to > be a bit of "song and dance"...but oh, what the heck. > > > http://www.bbg.org/vis2/2006/titan/video/index.html > > I also want to publicly express a note of appreciation, in this forum, > to Alan Galloway who ten years ago generously donated this > plant/seedling to the Garden. The craziness surrounding this kind of > event (as many of you now have had the pleasure of experiencing) > inadvertently short changed his role in this. This event is a testimony > to the crucial role that hobbyists play in conservation and the > dissemination of information and special plants. It can often be > difficult to reciprocate, but botanical institutions do depend on your > dedication, enthusiasm and generosity regardless of whether it is ever > properly acknowledged. Alan made a lot of New Yorkers happy and I > personally applaud him as well as all of you for the generosity of your > knowledge, experience and plants. Thank you. > > We did harvest pollen, so if anyone has a need contact me and I will see > what we can do. > > Dave Horak > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-l mailing list > Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: plantguy at zoominternet.net> on 2006.08.19 at 18:48:22(14533) Hi David, Wonderful to see you acknowlege the efforts of others like that!! So, this was just posted on another forum and it is near you so perhaps your pollen came come in useful very, very soon....a hobbyist grower has an Am. titanum blooming as below: "If you live in New England, here is your chance to see the corpse flower unfold; I just came back from a visit --no lines right now; it is set up in our local fire station. The immense plant has been raised by a hobby botanist/oral surgeon in our town. Should be in flower tomorrow evening or Monday. +More Laconia is best known for Motorcycle Week -- this is something truly different! Come one, come all. The $10.00 entrance charge will be used to support Lakes Region General Hospital Healthcare Dental Resource Center and the charitable efforts of the Laconia Kiwanis Club. Truly a "homegrown" event: Laconia Kiwanis Club in partnership with LRGHealthcare Present Rare Corpse Flower Bloom at Lakeport Fire Station in Laconia NH AUGUST 19th - August 27th 2006 Link with information and continuous photos: http://www.laconiaschools.org/corpseflower/ " These seem to be blooming like dandelions anymore :o) Dan Zone 6a Gibsonia, PA ----- Original Message ----- To: "Discussion of aroids" Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 11:17 AM Subject: [Aroid-l] Brooklyn Titan blooming Dear All, Our Titan is done and the spadix collapsed, but thanks to the generous donation of pollen from Virginia Tech's division of Biological Sciences, we are waiting to see if our pollination attempts have succeeded. There was of course a tremendous amount of hype but that withstanding the public really embraced our little event. It was special in that it proved to many of us that plants and collections can compel the public to come to a garden and that you do not necessarily have to resort to song and dance nonsense to "entertain" folks. That said, the following link is a time lapse video put together by our web person of the blooming and really kind of fun. I guess that this can be construed to be a bit of "song and dance"...but oh, what the heck. http://www.bbg.org/vis2/2006/titan/video/index.html I also want to publicly express a note of appreciation, in this forum, to Alan Galloway who ten years ago generously donated this plant/seedling to the Garden. The craziness surrounding this kind of event (as many of you now have had the pleasure of experiencing) inadvertently short changed his role in this. This event is a testimony to the crucial role that hobbyists play in conservation and the dissemination of information and special plants. It can often be difficult to reciprocate, but botanical institutions do depend on your dedication, enthusiasm and generosity regardless of whether it is ever properly acknowledged. Alan made a lot of New Yorkers happy and I personally applaud him as well as all of you for the generosity of your knowledge, experience and plants. Thank you. We did harvest pollen, so if anyone has a need contact me and I will see what we can do. Dave Horak _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: Hermine hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 2006.08.20 at 06:03:24(14534) This is like a year in which the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series, only better! hermine +More _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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