Re: [Aroid-l] Rafflesia flower size

From: Steve Marak <samarak at gizmoworks.com> on 2007.01.24 at 21:40:33(15130) "Largest flower" is a question that seems to interest even people without our addiction. I've read the following several places: largest single flower - Rafflesia arnoldii largest unbranched inflorescence - Amorphophallus titantum largest branched inflorescence - Corypha umbraculifera (talipot palm) although I've also seen Puya raimondii, one of those incredible Andean bromeliads, as a contender in the last category. The inflorescence is in the same size range (6-10 meters), but the palm seems to win on flower count by a couple of orders of magnitude (and probably on total weight, too). Of course, seeing it several places may just mean most of the writers copied it from the same original source. Steve +More -- Steve Marak -- samarak@gizmoworks.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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