The CORPSE FLOWER - a rare titan blooms in New York

[Frank Kalder]

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The extremely rare 'Corpse Flower' [Amorphophallus titanum]
http://ilrestodelcarlino.quotidiano.net/fotogiorno_vedi.php?id=617
blooms in 30 years only 3 to 4 days, e.g., in the Brooklyn Botanic
Garden.

Famed for its huge, triffidlike flower head and equally impressive foul
smell, the titan arum www.bbg.org/img/ind-titan_4.jpg is one of the
world's most remarkable plants. The flowering process unwinds over
the course of several weeks. Notable not only for the stature of its
bloom, the well-named corpse flower also produces a revolting stench of
putrefaction. In its native habitat, this scent attracts the carrion
beetles and sweat bees that succeed in pollinating the numerous
inconspicuous female flowers clustered in the lower half of the spike
(spadix).

History and Botany of the Titan Arum:
http://216.92.135.105/titan/info/history.html

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Ciao, Frank [haplif.net]

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