Blooming Titanum in Summit, New Jersey

From: hyndman at aroid.org (Scott Hyndman) on 2008.02.16 at 05:17:55(17070) For those living near Summit, New Jersey, Dr. Fevzi Zeren tells me per the note and images below that he has an Amorphophallus titanum getting ready to bloom under artificial lights in the basement of his Turkish Restaurant. He tells me that the netting is up to protect the inflorescence from a marauding cat who fancies eating the tip of the apendix! He said that any interested parties should feel free to call and setup a visit. Regards, Scott +More Begin forwarded message: > From: fzeren at aol.com > Date: February 10, 2008 2:00:35 PM EST > To: hyndman at aroid.org > Subject: Fwd: Blooming Titanum > > > > > > Hi There, > I have 4 Titanum tubers (ranging from 51 lb to 129 lb), 2 of them > are blooming, including the smallest one ( as far as I know, > smallest tuber ever bloomed ?) . attached is the picture, which > measure around 3 ft (almost 3 +weeks old), probably a couple weeks > to go for full blooming size?. This is my first experience, I need > help as far as pollination ( I know some from info. Available from > internet source). The plant is in Summit, NJ, at my caf? > restaurant ( Caf? Mavi). I am sure there are many people like to > see and/or cover this rare opportunity. Please advertise/sent > emails to your contacts, if any one is interested in seeing the > blooming A. titanium. I personally came to Fairchild, to see the > tuber 2 years ago. Now, at least those interested people living > in Nort Eeast have chance to see this event. > Sincerely, > Fevzi Zeren, Ph.D, P.E > My ph 908-273 6763 > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PICT0004.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 101478 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080216/4775e21d/attachment-0003.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PICT0008-1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 88388 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080216/4775e21d/attachment-0004.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PICT0048.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 75591 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080216/4775e21d/attachment-0005.jpg

From: jonathan.ertelt at Vanderbilt.Edu (Ertelt, Jonathan B) on 2008.02.17 at 03:18:11(17075) Just out of curiosity, did he say anything about closing his restaurant for a couple of days? It would seem like good planning to do so. Jonathan +More > For those living near Summit, New Jersey, Dr. Fevzi Zeren tells me > per the note and images below that he has an Amorphophallus titanum > getting ready to bloom under artificial lights in the basement of his > Turkish Restaurant. He tells me that the netting is up to protect > the inflorescence from a marauding cat who fancies eating the tip of > the apendix! He said that any interested parties should feel free to > call and setup a visit. > > Regards, Scott

From: bonaventure at optonline.net (bonaventure at optonline.net) on 2008.03.10 at 19:57:15(17157) Two weeks ago I went for a short trip to the restaurant, the food was good and Fevsi is an amiable and engaging host. The highlight was of course when he took my girlfriend and me down to the basement past the kitchen to see the one in bloom and one starting growth. Nearly past its prime, the smell was still there a bit, especially as you lean forward and sniff the spadix, I sure hope he had an out and back air pressure flow there during the week! As we crowded around the walls of the little room to make room for the star an occasional disruptive flash from a camera set up by the Newark Star-Ledger with time delay startled us. I took some pictures with my cell phone, but as they did not comeout well. I'll wait for good software to download them (and the computer that doesn't have a broken D drive for CD's) and maybe will send them in. Bonaventure Magrys +More New Jersey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080310/3b91a85c/attachment.htm

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