Re: A.titanum at Fairchild Tropical Garden

From: "Julius Boos" <ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 1998.06.29 at 03:29:21(2372) >>The pollen was ripe Fri. evening,collected,and sent to Atlanta where another titanum is on the verge of blooming.It's purpose achieved,the Miami spadix collapsed at 8:00a.m.EDT on Sat. There were quite a few visitors to the inflorescence throughout the day and most were glad to see it ----erect or not. As the day went on one could almost see the wilting and drawing in of the remainder of the inflorescence----it won't be long before it is entirely down. It's been a fascinating process!!! Although sometimes it's difficult to explain the Amorphophallus "concept" +More to non- botany minded people, I think most of them have appreciated the opportunity to learn about something so unique. Susan ststaiger@earthlink.net<< Dear Susan, Thank you for keeping those of us that live at too far a distance from Fairchild up to date on this remarkable event. My back went out on Thursday, which prevented me from even THINKING of going down to Miami as I had planned on Friday. I do hope that the pollen "keeps" till it can be used at Atlanta. An interesting exercise at this point would be to poll those people that were lucky enough to experence it`s remarkable odor. The human animal is well known for it`s differences in perceptions, and there have been so many conflicting accounts as to what this infloresence smells like, I suspect this may be because we all perceive odors slightly differently, though we may all agree that something smells "bad". Let`s see what we can come up with. Sincerely, Julius ju-bo@msn.com

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