Bonn University Botanic Garden - Amorph. titanum flowering

From: SelbyHort at aol.com on 2003.05.08 at 03:57:21(10211) As if we don't have enough excitement from Craig Allen's reports of the Fairchild rare double flowering now taking place, I have recently heard from Wolfram Lobin at the Bonn University Botanic Garden that they are expecting a monster of a flowering later this month. The plant now in bud is the same specimen of Amorphophallus titanum which flowered in summer 2000, attaining the height of 257 cm, and recorded as the third largest inflorescence in cultivation. A few months after flowering in July 2000, the plant developed an enormous leaf which grew for 17 months. At the last repotting in January 2003, the tuber, which weighed 36 kg prior to leafing, had attained an astonishing size of 78 kg. Their new web page is: http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/amorpho2003.html +More You can see images and charts that compare this year's flower development to the 2000 flowering. At its current rate of development the flower should be opening in about 2 weeks. To take advantage of all the details on their web site it helps if you can read German, but their visuals convey the essential story. For Amorphophallus nuts out there, the Titan season in kicking in big time! We are all in for a wild ride. Donna Atwood

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