Here's the latest on the Titan Arum {Amorphophallus titanum} bloom sightings around the world. We missed them, unfortunately. Basel, Switzerland's University of Basel had theirs produce the first bloom in 75 years over the Easter weekend. Don't know if it was this plant or not.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1379863/Worlds-smelliest-flower-Corpse-plant-opens-time-DECADE.html
And then, back in the beloved US of A, Ohio State's entry, a 9 year old plant named Woody {after OSU's famed football coach, Woody Hayes} actually bloomed a couple of days before this in a campus greenhouse. Go Buckeyes!
http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/titan-arum-its-a-blooming-miracle
Local to us plants at UConn and Smith College are between blooms at the moment. The National Stinky Plant bloomed last in 2007 down in Washington, DC.
I will find out when others in the area bloomed.
Hurray for Basel and Ohio State!
Martha
World Stinky Plant watch!
Martha, how cool! Thank you for sharing those websites with us on DG. Fascinating!
Kim
nice!!!
There's always a big spread in the Hartford Courant when the UCONN one blooms....
Thanks for the links...always reminds me of the scene in Dennis the Menace
The beginning is the garden club arriving to witness the blooming of the plant
Around 3:40min mark, the plant starts to open
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adn5I6roT4g&feature=related
I loved this movie
I have been down to see the UConn one the day after it bloomed. The Smith one was just starting to sprout from the bulb when I was last there a couple of years ago.
Martha
Haven't been to Uconn since my son's graduation....1994.
The only time I went to Uconn was to see this plant after watching it on the stinky plant cam for weeks.
Martha