Re: Number of A. titanums in existence.

Ive had in my possession and sold over 70 of these titanium tubers. The person I got them from had over 3,000 plants. It was EGF Orchids. In fact they still have a few. So to say the least, those numbers are just slightly off :-)





I refuse to participate in the in the recession.

--- On Sun, 1/10/10, Don Martinson <llmen@wi.rr.com> wrote:

From: Don Martinson <llmen@wi.rr.com>
Subject: [Aroid-l] Number of A. titanums in existence.
To: "aroid-l@gizmoworks.com" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 2:28 PM

The A. titanum at our local museum in Milwaukee is about to bloom.

http://www.mpm.edu/exhibitions/featured/titan-arum/2010/

An article in the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel stated :

> The museum's corpse flower, which has never bloomed before, has its roots in
> Sumatra, and only about 140 of the plants are known to exist in the world,
> according to Neil Luebke, curator of botany at the museum and the stinky
> plant's guardian.


While I realize they aren't selling these at K-Mart as yet, the figure of
140 seems rather low to me, at least when you add in all the smaller tubers
that seem to be available (at least for a price) as of late.

Is this truly an accurate guess as to the number of titanums in existence?


Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mailto:llmen@wi.rr.com





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