The genus includes the Titan arum (A. titanum) of Indonesia, which has the largest inflorescence of any plant in the genus, and is also known as the 'corpse flower' for the pungent odour it produces during its flowering period, which can take up through seven years of growth before it occurs. (wikipedia.org)
The weight of these tubers range from as little as ten grams (3/10ths of an ounce) in Amorphophallus pusillus of Vietnam to as much as 305 pounds (139 kg) for Amorphophallus titanum, a 14,000 fold difference in weight. (wikipedia.org)
The species Amorphophallus titanum, 'corpse flower' or titan arum, has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence, with a height of up to 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) and a width of 1.5 metres (4.9 ft).[citation needed].After an over 1.2 metres (3.9 ft)-tall flower opened at Chicago Botanic Gardens on September 29, 2015, thousands lined up to see and smell it. (wikipedia.org)
David Attenborough gave the plant its common name , because he felt that a literal translation of Amorphophallus titanum - giant, misshapen phallus - would offend viewers' delicate sensibilities. (nature.org)
The plant's scientific name is Amorphophallus titanum , though this name comes from the plant's rather, uh, distinctive shape instead of its smell (dust off your old Latin textbook to see what we mean). (howstuffworks.com)
By the layman's definition of a flower, the largest flower is the titan arum or corpse flower ( Amorphophallus titanum ), which is actually composed of hundreds of tiny flowers that form a central spadix. (sizes.com)
Curiously, the flowers of both Rafflesia arnoldi and Amorphophallus titanum appear very briefly (a few days at most), and both smell like carrion. (sizes.com)
Dubbed the 'corpse flower', Titan arum ( Amorphophallus titanum ) stinks of rotting flesh when in bloom. (kew.org)
It belongs to the cheese plant family (Araceae), and vegetatively, it shares a great similarity with species in the Amorphophallus genus, for example, Amorphophallus titanum ( titan arum ), which is found in Kew's Princess of Wales Conservatory and also known as the 'corpse flower' due to its rotting flesh scent. (kew.org)
This warm, wet tropical environment contains rare and unusual palms, the Amorphophallus titanum (The Huntington's infamous "Corpse Flower," that blooms on rare occasions), and a pond. (huntington.org)
The Titan Arum, Amorphophallus titanum , has been called the world's largest flower, with a bloom that can grow to more than eight feet in height and four feet in diameter. (huntington.org)
Currently we maintain several dozen plants of Amorphophallus titanum in greenhouses and planted in the Conservatory. (huntington.org)
One of Cornell's Titan arums ( Amorphophallus titanum )-a rare plant also known as a "corpse flower" for the deathly odor it produces at flowering-bloomed outdoors in August. (cornell.edu)
Called the Amorphophallus titanum - better known as a titan arum or corpse flower (due to its production of a very pungent aroma like that of a rotting carcass), these are among the most gigantic of flowers - blooms are potentially 9 feet in height and 6 feet across. (zoonewengland.org)
Sir David Attenborough was the first person to use the name "titan arum" to refer to the tropical plant in the BBC series The Private Lives of Plants , because he was worried viewers might be, er, offended by its Latin name "Amorphophallus titanum. (hellogiggles.com)
The yellow stalk underneath is called the spadix and it gives the plant its scientific name, Amorphophallus titanum , or roughly "giant deformed phallus. (kqed.org)
Obrovská rastlina nájdená v Indonézii je Amorphophallu titanum, alebo Titan arum. (prommer.sk)
Tak isto ako Rafflesia vydáva Amorphophallus titanum odporný zápach podobný hnijúcemu mäsu. (prommer.sk)
You are probably familiar with Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, which has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, but do you know about its smaller, red tongued sibling Amorphophallus konjac? (reading.ac.uk)
Amorphophallus Titanum, also known as titan arum, is a flowering plant reaching about 3 metres in height. (ferntasticagardens.com)
Special attractions are the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) with the world's largest flower and another basin with Amazon water lilies. (zxc.wiki)
The week of July 21, 2003, media broadcasts including national news announced that a Titan Arum, (Amorphophallus titanum) was about to bloom at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC. (magpieaesthetic.com)
The world's largest blooming plant is the Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), a giant herb found in the rainforest of Sumatra, Indonesia. (pixel-review.com)
We popped up to UC Berkeley Botanical Garden today to see Trudy the titan arum ( Amorphophallus titanum , for those unafraid of a giant, misshapen phallus). (mimumau.com)
The name "corpse flower" applied to Rafflesia can be confusing because this common name also refers to the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) of the family Araceae. (charismaticplanet.com)
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Still, none of these flowers seem to have the ability to turn stomachs like the Titan Arum, and the corpse flower wouldn't have it any other way. (howstuffworks.com)
When UC Botanical Garden's rare titan arum, Amorphophallus titanium (corpse flower), blooms this week, the flower will both attract and repel visitors. (sott.net)
The odor helps the plant attract insects that carry its pollen to other titan arums, since corpse flowers can't pollinate themselves. (sott.net)
Trudy, the "Corpse Flower," is a titan arum plant, and it took an entire seven years to reach full bloom. (hellogiggles.com)
Corpse flowers -- also known as titan arum -- open when it's warm, and biologists at botanical gardens around the Bay Area are tending to the fickle plants in preparation for potential blooms this spring and summer. (kqed.org)
A towering specimen of the titan arum, or corpse flower, went on display at the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory Thursday (July 11), as the plant is about to hit peak bloom - a rare and brief spectacle that reeks like rotting flesh. (livescience.com)
The titan arum is also known as the corpse flower, because when in bloom the stench produced is supposed to smell very much like a decaying body. (mimumau.com)
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As is typical of the Arum family, these species develop an inflorescence consisting of an elongate or ovate spathe (a sheathing bract) which usually envelops the spadix (a flower spike with a fleshy axis). (wikipedia.org)
A runner-up is Amorphophallus gigas, which is taller, but has a somewhat smaller inflorescence. (wikipedia.org)
Although the Titan Arum looks like a flower, it's technically an inflorescence , a group of flowers clustered around a central column known as a spadix and surrounded by a leafy structure called a spathe . (howstuffworks.com)
Titan Arum, the world's largest inflorescence, goes by several names. (howstuffworks.com)
Titan arum has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world that can stand up to 3 metres above ground. (kew.org)
A Titan arum plant will usually have accumulated enough energy to produce the giant inflorescence once the tuber is at least five years old and has reached 20kg or over. (kew.org)
This rare Amorphophallus species originates inthe lowland rainforests of Sumatra and produces a gigantic inflorescence, sometimes up to 3 meters tall. (onszaden.com)
The titan arum's inflorescence is the largest in the world, often taller than 10 feet (3 meters). (livescience.com)
The Titan Arum boasts the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. (ceravasarawak.com)
The purple spotted leaves of Arum maculatum appear in the spring (April-May) followed by the flowers borne on a poker shaped inflorescence called a spadix. (findmeacure.com)
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This weekend formerly world record Amorphophallus titanium at botanic garden of unniversity Bonn, Germany, will bloom another time. (sourdough.com)
The titan arum , scientifically named Amorphophallus titanium , is native to the steamy rain forests of central Sumatra in western Indonesia and was first discovered by researchers in 1878. (livescience.com)
Otherwise known as amorphophallus titanium, this plant weighs about 100 pounds and can grow up to 8 feet tall. (arenaflowers.co.in)
Amorphophallus titanium is a deciduous perennial and prefers bright, indirect sunlight and well-draining soil. (myplantin.com)
Amorphophallus titanium prefers temperatures between 55-80°F (13-27°C). (myplantin.com)
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Amorphophallus (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis", referring to the shape of the prominent spadix) is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the Arum family (Araceae), native to Asia, Africa, Australia and various oceanic islands. (wikipedia.org)
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In 1889, Titan arum flowered for the first time ever outside its native Sumatra, Indonesia, right here at Kew. (kew.org)
Titan arum is endemic to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia where it grows in rainforests on limestone hills. (kew.org)
Below is a short video we took as we found a Titan Lily in flower in Sumatra Indonesia. (rareplants.net.au)
This is a very rare Amorphophallus species that naturally occurs only on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. (onszaden.com)
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Amorphophallus tubers vary greatly from species to species, from the quite uniformly globose tuber of A. konjac to the elongated tubers of A. longituberosus and A. macrorhizus to the bizarre clustered rootstock of A. coaetaneus. (wikipedia.org)
citation needed] Amorphophallus konjac tubers are used to make konnyaku (コンニャク), a Japanese thickening agent and edible jelly containing glucomannan. (wikipedia.org)
Amorphophallus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species including Palpifer sexnotatus and Palpifer sordida. (wikipedia.org)
Just like titan arum, Drancontium species produce a putrid scent when it flowers to attract pollinators. (kew.org)
The big brother of the species is the Titan Arum, the common name preferred by the god of nature broadcasting, Sir David Attenborough, who decided that the literal translation was 'too rude' for a TV audience. (ceravasarawak.com)
In 1878, a decade after he left Sarawak's shores, he encountered the Titan Arum species in Sumatra and sent back seeds to his patron in Italy. (ceravasarawak.com)
The Arum family , Aroidae, which numbers nearly 1,000 members, mostly tropical, and many of them marsh or water plants, is represented in this country by a sole species, Arum maculatum (Linn. (findmeacure.com)
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Titan Arum is such a large plant that it can take a year or more for the plant to store enough energy to bloom (and even then, the plant can only sustain its bloom for a couple of days). (howstuffworks.com)
Because Titan Arum plants are located so far apart from one another and bloom so infrequently, they need to attract as much insect attention as possible to ensure pollination. (howstuffworks.com)
Titan arum is a major tourist attraction when in bloom. (kew.org)
The bloom in Minns Garden is believed to be the first time a Titan arum has ever bloomed outdoors beyond the tropics. (cornell.edu)
Visitors to Franklin Park Zoo may have a rare opportunity to see a titan arum in bloom in what could be a unique experience to see this giant of the plant world on full display. (zoonewengland.org)
Titan arums are very sensitive plants and conditions must be just right for them to bloom. (zoonewengland.org)
We are intrigued by titan arum, and we'd totally take a trip to Berkeley to see the strange and magnificent flower in bloom. (hellogiggles.com)
The pollination of 'Jack', the Titan currently in bloom in Texas, was done last night and today he released his pollen which was collected and is on its way to Walt Disney World. (aroid.org)
Then, they unwittingly do the plant's dirty work, flying off to cross pollinate a new titan arum in bloom. (livescience.com)
But, just like its Titan brother, it can be a long wait for an Eburneus to bloom. (ceravasarawak.com)
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The Amorphophallus in this area is the Eburneus, locally endemic and restricted to a limestone environment, just one of the reasons why this nature reserve needs protecting from the predatory quarries that eye its precious resources. (ceravasarawak.com)
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Unlike Rafflesia , which are extremely difficult or impossible to grow, the titan arum can be viewed at a number of conservatories, especially since in 1993 a television production, The Private Life of Flowers , encouraged by Dr. James Symon, very kindly distributed seeds. (sizes.com)
Bonn University Botanic Garden in Germany was instrumental in finding the correct conditions needed to make Titan arums reliably flower. (kew.org)
We have witnessed the opening of the Titan Arum in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 2015 and have a chance to portray this splendid flower with my two valuable botanical artists friends, Jacqui Pestell and Sharon Tingey. (isikguner.com)
The U.S. Botanic Garden has not displayed a blooming titan arum since 2007. (livescience.com)
KEYES: Bill McLaughlin is the plant curator with the U.S. Botanic Garden and did get to smell the titan before the stomach-turning aroma faded away. (wglt.org)
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Arum maculatum is a perennial plant growing to 0.5 m (1ft 8in). (findmeacure.com)
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DID YOU KNOW: The seeds of the Titan Arum are distributed by Hornbills? (aroid.org)
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Whilst some pollinators are attracted to floral aromas, the pollinators of Titan arum love to feed and breed on flesh and dung. (kew.org)
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Between 1876 and 1911, Engler merged a number of other genera into Amorphophallus, with a final monograph published in 1911. (wikipedia.org)
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We've already explored how the Titan Arum uses its noxious perfume to help with pollination, but the plant doesn't stop there. (howstuffworks.com)
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Meet the plant that eats shrew poo, the orchid that has sex with itself, and the embarrassingly phallic titan arum. (nature.org)
By crawling all over the plant, these insects play a vital role in pollinating the Titan Arum. (howstuffworks.com)
Titan Arum isn't the only plant with an eye -watering stink, which may be why it works so hard to stand out from its malodorous brethren. (howstuffworks.com)
The Titan Arum is an exotic and impressive flowering plant native to the rainforests of Sumatra. (myplantin.com)
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The U.S. Botanical Garden agreed that it would be in the best interest of science to preserve a specimen of the Amorphophallus before it fell into total ruin. (magpieaesthetic.com)
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Despite looking like a giant flower, titan arum is not actually one giant flower. (nature.org)
On years when Titan arum does not flower, it produces a single, tree-like leaf - the largest leaf in the world. (kew.org)
When a titan arum is ready to flower, a stalk starts to grow out of the soil. (kqed.org)
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The Titan Arum's flowers are pollinated by carrion beetles and its fruit is eaten by Sumatran elephants. (pixel-review.com)
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The pollinated flowers of Titan arum then develop bright red and orange spherical fruits which are typically dispersed by Rhinoceros Hornbills. (kew.org)
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For the first time ever three blooming giant arums in Ghent's botanical garden. (travelformotion.com)
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The malodorous flowering of the titan arum is unpredictable and there are often a few years, sometimes even a few decades, between blooms. (livescience.com)
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And in June, Terra the Titan opened at the Conservatory of Flowers, attracting 6,000 to 8,000 additional visitors. (kqed.org)
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That's just one potential scenario for how Beccari discovered the extremely rare and wonderful Titan Arum. (howstuffworks.com)
However, Drancontium differs sharply from Amorphophallus in having bisexual flowers. (kew.org)
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It's the titan arum and NPR's Allison Keyes tells us people flocked to the greenhouse in hopes of getting a rare whiff of the flower's putrid essence. (wglt.org)
The Titan Arum can reach a height of up to 6.6 feet (2 meters) and a width of 3.3 feet (1 meter). (pixel-review.com)
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Sarawak, however, does have its own examples from the Arum family and, just like any family, this one contains a broad range of members, some rarely seen as a result of their weird behavioural quirks or extreme appearance. (ceravasarawak.com)
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We usually grow the magnificent Titan arum behind the scenes at Kew's Tropical Nursery. (kew.org)
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We hope our guests will be able to see this, although the Titan flowerings at Fairchild tended to open more during the night than during the day. (aroid.org)
Titan arum only stays open for 24 to 48 hours before it collapses. (wglt.org)
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The destruction of the rainforests of Sumatra is drastically affecting the number of Titan arum in the wild. (kew.org)