Re: Titan Arum

Hello Barb,
    For those of you who are fascinated by weirdness and stink in the garden,
there are alternatives to the "corpse flower"  Considerably smaller, but does not
require a green house, doing fine in the open garden is Sauromatum. Blooms in
April here in all its strangeness. Stinks up the garden just fine thank you. It is
now sending up spotted stalks with leaves resembling something from the tropics.
Quite a show. Next, and in bloom now in the garden, is the "Devil's Arum" or
Dracunculus. About 4 feet now, variegated foliage, large leaves, bloom about 18
inches in length. Yep... stink is there.
    Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Barb Pernacciaro <bpern@idcnet.com>
Subject: Titan Arum


> A "perennial" (?) - anyway, an interesting plant that is now blooming at The
> University of Wisconsin-Madison and which is getting hundreds of visitors
> daily. Here is a blurb from the website from the university with links to
> information and to a live-cam of the flower itself.
> Corpse flower begins bloom
> (posted 06/07/01)
> The university "corpse flower," the rare plant native to Sumatra that is
> attracting thousands of visitors to a campus greenhouse, is beginning to
> blossom.
> The blossoming is clearly visible to visitors, as shown on a live Web cam
> trained on the plant.
> The greenhouse will be open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Friday through Sunday, June
> 8-10.
> Also to better accommodate visitors, the entrance has been changed. The only
> entrance to the greenhouse will be through the garage at the rear of Birge
> Hall at the southeast corner of the building. Visitors will then be able to
> exit through the building after seeing the flower.
> The titan arum or "corpse flower" is noted for a malodorous stench given off
> by blooms that can have a diameter of as much as four feet. The nascent
> bloom at UW-Madison, exceedingly rare among cultivated titan arum plants, is
> the first in Wisconsin and may be only the 12th recorded U.S. bloom.


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