Re: World's Largest Flower

> Found this item in my morning e-mail.  Think I may have actually found a 
> perennial none of you are growing.  And, no Kemberly, I don't know where you 
> can buy one!  If you do find one, you'll have to put it in your greenhouse.  
> It's a tropical.  

I wouldn't be sure that nobody's growing it...  The one at Huntington
actually came from one of the aroid-l listmembers who was growing it
in his greenhouse, but it was getting too big.  He gave it to them
when the tuber weighed about 40 pounds.

Anyhow, you can monitor the progress of Amorphophallus titanum as it
blooms at

   http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/TitanImages.htm

Or you can see infrared monitoring by NASA:

   http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/flower/

Gotta love that name...

Chris

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