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	Titan arum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the case of the Titan Arum, the spathe is green on the outside and dark burgundy red on the inside, and deeply furrowed.
		Titan Arum at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London on 8 June 2005, ten days before it opened.
		The titan arum only grows in the wild in the equatorial rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titan_arum (802 words)

	Titan arum nearly ready to stink up at UW-Madison
		Mohammad Fayyaz, the director of the UW botany greenhouses, is tracking the titan's progress on the plant portal, including its growth, the development of the flower, the weather and its effects, and the nuances of measuring a record-pacing plant.
		The Titum [sic] arum plant in Wisconsin grew from seeds collected in Sumatra in 1993 in conjunction with the BBC series "Private Life of Plants." The seeds were distributed to a number of U.S. botanists and grew into many of the specimens of the plant that have bloomed in the United States in recent years.
		The titan arum is located in Greenhouse #8, which at the rear of Birge Hall, which sits above the Botany Garden amidst Bascom Hall, South Hall, and Lathrop, right in the heart of the oldest part of the campus.
	www.dane101.com /node/309/print (994 words)

	Titan Arum: June 2005 Blooming
		Family: Titan Arum is a member of the Family Araceae, the Aroids or Arum plants.
		The Titan Arum bloomed for the first time in the United States at the New York Botanical Gardens in 1937, where it became a sensation.
		On the Titan Arum at that time, the tip of the spadix (the central spike) was about human body temperature.
	www.news.wisc.edu /titanarum/facts.html (884 words)

	titan arum 2001
		i went to see the titan arum on thursday may 31, 2001.
		the people at another greenhouse where a titan arum had bloomed said _not_ to open up the greenhouse windows to air it out -- they had done that and had been inundated with flies.
		when i was a kid i read about titan arums and loved the idea of a gigantic flower that smelled terrible, and wanted to see and smell one, so it's wonderful to have this opportunity to fulfill a lifetime goal.
	www.astro.wisc.edu /~mukluk/titan-arum.html (670 words)

	Titan Arum: June 2005 Blooming
		Titan arum blossom may be on record pace
		Greenhouse director Mohammad Fayyaz says that overcast skies and cooler temperatures in the greenhouse on Friday may be the reason that Titan's growth slowed a bit since the Friday morning measurement of 82 inches.
		Visitors are welcome to take photos of the Titan arum or to videotape it for their own personal use.
	www.news.wisc.edu /titanarum (1325 words)

	Botanic Garden Bonn \| Amorphophallus titanum
		The Titan Arum, native to Sumatra, is one of the most spectacular phenomena in the plant kingdom; it was discovered in the 19th century by the Florentine botanist Odoardo Beccari (1843-1920).
		The Titan Arum is only native to the Island of Sumatra (Indonesia), where it can be found in the undergrowth of rainforests on chalky soils.
		Titan arums are a rare sight in botanic gardens.
	www.botgart.uni-bonn.de /o_samm/eng_vers/amor_en.html (652 words)

	JMG-Galleries - Ted the Titan Arum
		Like many others I was curiously drawn to catch a view of this odd specimen, seeing as how it produces the largest reproductive structure in the plant world every 6-10 years, emits an odor reminiscent of rotting food or flesh and the blooms last only 3-4 days.
		Titan Arum's, Amorphophallus titanum, are actually related to the cala lilly and native to Sumatra where it grows on the edge of forests.
		The unique odor the Titan Arum emits is strongest on the first and second day of it's bloom.
	www.jmg-galleries.com /articles/ted_the_titan_arum.html (225 words)

	Exotic Flower Rises to Sizable Sexual Peak - Daily Nexus
		During this stage, the flower also emits a foul odor, causing it to be known as the “corpse flower.” Titan arums may only flower two or three times in their 40-year lifespans.
		Tiny is neither an early nor a late bloomer; most Titan arums take between seven and eight years to reach their reproductive age, when the corn, or bulb, of the plant weighs roughly 30 pounds.
		Titan arum corns have been found in the wild weighing up to 160 pounds.
	www.dailynexus.com /article.php?a=3434 (972 words)

	Titan arum
		The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) or "corpse plant" is the largest flower in the world (but not the largest single flower--that distinction belongs to Rafflesia).
		It is taller than a man. Like its cousins the arum[?] and the calla[?], it consists of a fragrant spadix of flowers wrapped by a spathe, which looks like the flower's single petal--but in this flower, the "fragrance" is of rotting meat, to attract the carrion-eating beetles that pollinate it.
		Most recently, a plant grown from seed at the University of California, Davis flowered on 9 June, 2003.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ti/Titan_arum.html (147 words)

	The Environmental Literacy Council - Titan Arum
		Also known as the titan arum, the plant, technically not a flower but an "inflorescence" or cluster of flowers, is called bunga bangkai, the "corpse flower," by the residents of its home, Indonesia, because its stench is at least as striking as its size.
		Botanist theorize that the smell is so strong because titan arums do not grow close to one another and a plant may need to attract pollinators that are some distance away from it.
		In 1998 this garden in Coral Gables, FL had the first bloom of a titan arum in the US in nearly sixty years, and it also had the most recent bloom in the country in May 2003.
	www.enviroliteracy.org /subcategory.php/232.html (422 words)

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		But it was historically appropriate; I see from Kew's site that in 1926 the crowds drawn to the second flowering of the Titan Arum were so large that police had be called in to control them.
		Kew's Titan arums have been blooming regularly for the past few years, but this is only the second time ours has bloomed in the ten years we've had it.
		Other amazing facts about the Titan arum are that it is pollinated by dung beetles (hence the smell), and that it actually gets warm during its brief bloom, reaching human body temperature, before "falling into an exhausted heap".
	www.sealwyf.com /weblog/2003_07_01_archive.html (429 words)

	Titan Arum Photo Gallery by Michael Puff at pbase.com
		Nicknamed "Ted", the Amorphophallus titanum (commonly known as "Titan Arum" or "Corpse Flower") was on loan from the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory and expected to bloom over the Memorial Day weekend.
		It is commonly known as the titan arum.
		The titan arum starts life as a seed, and produces a leaf and a tuber each year until it yields the plant kingdom's largest tuber.
	www.pbase.com /mtpuff/ted (399 words)

	Titan Lily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Titan Arum is a member of the Family Araceae, the Aroids or Arum plants.
		The Titan Arum is native to rainforests of central Sumatra in Indonesia and grows from a large tuber that can weigh over 170 pounds.
		Thanks to the revolting perfume, the titan arum is also know as the Corpse flower.
	plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu /plantmotion/flowers/titan/titan.html (292 words)

	Massive "Corpse Flower" Set for Rare Blooming in U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The plant, known as Titan arum, or "corpse flower," was being closely monitored by botanists and horticulturists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Botany Greenhouse.
		Titan arum, or Amorphophallus titanum, bloomed for the first time in the United States at the New York Botanical Gardens in 1937.
		The Indonesian Titan arum, or "corpse flower," is the largest flower in the world and has a putrid scent to lure pollinating dung beetles and flesh flies.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/06/0605_flowerbloom.html (654 words)

	World's Largest Blossom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For anybody who wondered, the World's Largest Blossom is a Titan Arum, also known in Javanese as "bunga bangui", Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum).
		A relative of Jack-in-the-pulpit and skunk cabbage, the titan arum grows from a potato-like tuber that often weighs more than 100 pounds.
		Titan arums have blossomed only about 40 times in cultivation, including nine times in the United States.
	www.bga.com /~pixel/fun/titanarum.html (124 words)

	april2002/page15.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Titan Arum is located in the wet tropics zone of this glasshouse.
		The reason for Titan Arum to be called also as “Corpse Flower” is the emission of a repulsive scent when the flower is fully open.
		The Titan Arum that burst into flower in May 1, 2002 broke the record with a height of 2 m.
	www.robcol.k12.tr /publications/krobertea/Fall2002/page15.htm (905 words)

	Takoma Voice: Features - Journal of an organic farm worker
		Slowly the visitors are ushered inside to catch a glimpse–and a whiff–of the blooming, five-foot tall titan arum, or corpse flower, widely acknowledged by botanists and casual spectators as the largest and smelliest flower in the world.
		While the exotic titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) is native to the Indonesian jungles of Sumatra, the Botanic Garden's specimen was raised in Silver Spring by Craig and Fanny Phillips.
		Seeing their titan arum on CNN and in The Washington Post in July was just the latest adventure for the elderly couple, who have spent a lifetime raising reptiles, growing exotic plants, and watching wildlife.
	www.takoma.com /archives/copy/2003/09/titanarum.html (1085 words)

	Trudy the Titan
		The largest flower-like structure in the plant world belongs to Amorphophallus titanum, affectionately known as the “Titan Arum” or “Corpse Flower”.
		This plant and its relatives are members of a family often referred to as Voodoo lilies but they are actually not lilies but ‘Arums’.
		The titan arum, however, has a particularly massive corm that may reach hundreds of pounds.
	botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu /whatsnew/titanArum/titanArumInfo.shtml (471 words)

	Botanic Gardens Trust - Titan Arum
		Factors contributing to the threat of extinction of the Titan Arum
		Kebun Raya Bogor and the Botanic Gardens Trust are collaborating in a project to propagate the Titan Arum — we hope eventually to be able to supply the demand for tubers and so stop wild harvesting.
		Titan Arum flower growing in the Kebun Raya at Bogor in Indonesia
	www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au /conservation_research/horticulture_research/titan_arum (490 words)

	The Titan Arum!
		The Titan Arum's inflorescence is a flowering structure that contains a multitude of small flowers.
		Rapidly-growing bloom of Titan Arum in the Biology Department's Greenhouse.
		Leo Song, Greenhouse Technician, admires the rapidly-growing bloom of Titan Arum in the Biology Department's Greenhouse.
	biology.fullerton.edu /facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/titan-arum2000.html (321 words)

	Titan Arum Archive
		If you have information about any other Titan Arum blooms that are missing from this list--past, present, or any upcoming bloom--please email me the date of bloom, location, height of bloom, and web site address, if any, for the bloom.
		First bloom in the U.S.: The Titan Arum bloomed for the first time in the United States at the New York Botanical Gardens in June of1937, where it became a sensation.
		Biology of the Titan Arum: The Titan Arum grows from a large corm that can weigh over 200 pounds; the blooming stalk can reach 10 feet and open to a diameter of three to four feet.
	botit.botany.wisc.edu /Titan_Arum_Archive (914 words)

	Blooming of Amorphophallus titanum (corpse flower) at BBG
		The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) is one of the world's most remarkable plants.
		It was the first time a titan arum had bloomed in New York in nearly 70 years.
		We pollinated the titan arum with pollen donated from Virgina Tech and are waiting to see if Baby produces a harvestable crop of seed-bearing fruits.
	www.bbg.org /vis2/2006/titan (271 words)

	'Corpse Flower' Now Blooming at Fullerton Arboretum
		The Fullerton Arboretum’s Titan Arum or “Corpse Flower” — a plant that emits a pungent odor that smells like rotting meat — is now blooming and on public display.
		Titan Arum is expected to be fully open by 8 p.m., according to Chris Barnhill, living plants curator at the Fullerton Arboretum, which is open tonight until 9.
		Titan Arum will be on display for about a week following the collapse of the spadix, before being moved back into the Fullerton Arboretum’s greenhouse.
	campusapps.fullerton.edu /news/2006/268_corpseflower.html (335 words)

	Titan Arum growing
		The Titan arum blooms very rarely in cultivation, often the plants grow for many years - sometimes decades - without producing a flower.
		The titan arum originates in the moist shaded rainforests of Sumatra, and here it was reencountered by a western botanist in 1878, seeds was taken from a plant, and one of the young plants that germinated from them was subsequently dispatched to Kew, where it flowered in 1889, exciting great public interest.
		In 1926, when it flowered again, the crowds attracted by the phenomenon were so large that the police were called to control them.
	www.krukkeri.dk /text18.html (109 words)

	Titan Arum: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is difficult to imagine a more vivid example of the majesty and diversity of the plant kingdom than the Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the Titan Arum.
		Deep inside the protective folds of the Titan's petal-like spathe, the male and female flowers mature at different times, which means the plant cannot self-pollinate.
		The public interest in the Amorphophallus titanum was as "titanic" as the bloom, and staff members and volunteers spent hours among the crowds, answering questions and distributing educational fact sheets.
	www.huntington.org /BotanicalDiv/TitanIntro.htm (835 words)

	World's Largest and Stinkiest Flower to Bloom in Brooklyn--Witness the Makings of History with First-Ever ...
		BBG’s titan arum is also distinguished because it was grown from seed.
		Free with Garden admission, visitors are encouraged to come often to witness and compare the unusual and rapid growth of the plant—culminating in a bloom that can reach up to nine feet in height and only last for a few days.
		Visitors are welcome to photograph or videotape the titan arum for their own personal use.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006/8/prweb421538.htm (886 words)

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