Re: Number of A. titanums in existence.

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From: Tony Avent <tony@plantdelights.com>
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Number of A. titanums in existence.
To: "Discussion of aroids" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
Date: Monday, January 11, 2010, 6:59 PM

Don:

Since we have sold 672 A. titanums since 2000, I'd say the number is
slightly low....unless they know that 532 of them have died.

> 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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Tony Avent
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