List of
Amorphophallus titanum
Blooms
1. 1889. Royal Botanical Garden/Kew/England. Being the first Amorphophallus titanum to bloom in cultivation. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/history.html
2. 1894. Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg/Kebun Raya Bogor/Java/Indonesia. Amorphophallus titanium became the symbol of the Indonesian Botanic Gardens. http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/kri/a.htm
3. 1901. Royal Botanical Garden/Kew/England. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/history.html
4. 1924. Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg/Kebun Raya Bogor/Java/Indonesia. http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/kri/
5. 1926. Royal Botanical Garden/Kew/England. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/history.html
6. 1929. Royal Botanical Garden/Kew/England. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/history.html.
7. 1929. Botanical Garden/Hamburg/Germany. 6/28/1929. http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bzf/index.htm
8. 1930. Botanical Garden/Hamburg/Germany. http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bzf/index.htm
9. 1932. Botanical Garden/Wgeningen/The Netherlands. Spadix grew to 2.67 m. (8.75 feet) high and spathe1.5 m (4.92 feet) in diameter. http://www.gardenvisit.com/ge/wageningen.htm
10. 1934. Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg/Kebun Raya Bogor/Java/Indonesia. http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/kri/a.htm
11. 1935. Botanical Garden/Wageningen/The Netherlands. http://www.gardenvisit.com/ge/wageningen.htm
12. 1936. Botanical Garden/Bern/Switzerland.
13. 1937. Botanical Garden/Bonn/Germany. Spadix grew to 2 m. (6 feet) high. Corm imported by Prof. Koernicke in 1934 from Sumatra. http://www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/am2 morpho2003e.html
14. 1937. New York Botanical Garden/New York/USA. June1937. Spadix grew to 2.57 m. (8 feet, 5 inches) high. Corm weight was 45.36 Kg. (100 Pounds). In June of 1937 this plant was the first Titan arum to bloom in cultivation in USA. It became "Official Flower of the Bronx". http://www.nybg.org/. Time Magazine archive: Jun. 21,1937. "A specimen of the world's largest known flower last week bloomed in the U. S. for the first time. Custodian of this prodigy, whose scientific name is Amorphophallus titanum and which is being called krubi by the islanders of its native Sumatra, was the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx. Only 13 times before had Amorphophallus titanum bloomed outside the Sumatra jungle- Four times in London's Kew Gardens, Twice in Holland, Three times in Germany, Three times in a botanical garden in Java and once in Awitzerland. During last week's excitement Assistant Curator Wendell Holmes Camp observed that The Bronx's plant was...".
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,757979,00.html
15. 1939. New York Botanical Garden/New York/USA. 7/2/1939. Spadix grew to 1.22 m. (4 feet) high. Corm weight was 14.06 Kg. (31 pound). http://www.nybg.org/
16. 1939. Botanical Garden/Berlin/Dahlem/Germany. http://www.bgbm.org/BGBM/default.htm
17. 1940. Botanical Garden/Bonn/Germany. July of 1940. http://www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/amorpho2003e.html
18. 1956. Botanical Garden/Leiden/The Netherlands. http://www.answers.com/topic/hortus-botanicus-leiden
19. 1980. Botanical Garden/Munich/Germany. http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botgart/e/default.html
20. 1985. Palmengarten/Frankfurt/Germany. Spadix grew to 2.49 m. (8 feet 2 inches) high. http://www.palmengarten.frankfurt.de/
21. 1987. Botanical Garden/Bonn/Germany. 4/27-28/1987. Spadix grew to 1.63 m. (5 feet, 4 inches) high. http://www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/amorpho2003e.html
22. 1994. Botanical Garden/Mainz/Germany. http://www.botgarten.uni-mainz.de/
23. 1994. Palmengarten/Frankfurt/Germany. http://www.palmengarten.frankfurt.de/
24. 1994. Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg/Kebun Raya Bogor/Java/Indonesia. 3/14/1994. http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/kri/a.htm
25. 1995. Botanical Garden/Leiden/The Netherlands. http://www.answers.com/topic/hortus-botanicus-leiden
26. 1995. Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg/Kebun Raya Bogor/Java/Indonesia. 2/15/95. Amorphophallus titanum Becc. "In section VI. C 326 of Bogor Botanic Garden has bloomed. The plant is from Gunung Batu Asal, Muara Imat, Kerinci, Jambi of the Flora Exploration. It was planted on 9 November 1992, the Corm weighing 26 kg. (57.32 pounds). The generative phase started on 26th December 1994 and the full bloom of the flower occurred on 15th February 1995." The Spadix grew to 1.45 m. (4.92 feet) high and the Spathe diameter was 63 cm (2.06 feet). As reported in Eksplorasi Vol.1 No. 2, in March 1994, a different Amorphophallus titanum bloomed. The Spadix and Spathe were larger than the latest one. Amorphophallus titanum Becc. is the mascot flora of the Indonesian Botanic Gardens (Kebun Raya Indonesia). http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/kri/a.htm
27. 1996. Botanical Garden/Bonn/Germany. 5/8-11/1996. http://www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/amorpho2003e.html
28. 1996. Botanical Garden/Bonn/Germany. 5/30 6/2/1996. http://www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/amorpho2003e.html
29. 1996. Palmengarten/Frankfurt/Germany. http://www.palmengarten.frankfurt.de/
30. 1996. Royal Botanical Garden/Kew/England. Plant donated by Leiden University's botanic garden. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/history.html
31. 1997. Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg/Kebun Raya Bogor/Java/Indonesia. Same Corm bloomed in 1994 and 2001. http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/kri/a.htm
32. 1998. University of Missouri/St. Louis/USA. 5/1/1998. Spadix grew to 0.89 m. (2 feet 11 inches) high. Plant grown from wild-collected seed discovered by Dr. Jim Symon. The seed was planted in February of 1995, and grown in the University of Missouri/St. Louis greenhouse by Kathy Upton. http://www.aroid.org/gallery/upton/titanum.html
33. 1998. Botanical Garden/Bonn/Germany. 5/1-3/1998. Spadix grew to 2.34 m. (7 feet, 8 inches) high. http://www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/amorpho2003e.html
34. 1998. Fairchild Tropical Garden/Coral Gables/Florida/USA. 6/24/1998. Named ' Mr. Stinky". Spadix grew to 1.51 m. (4 feet and 11 1/2) inches high and Spathe grew to 0.76 m. (30 inches) in diameter. Bloomed again in May of 2001. http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus98.html
35. 1998. Atlanta Botanical Garden/Georgia/USA. 7/6/1998. Spadix grew to 1.9 m. (6 feet, 3 inches) high. http://www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/events_and_exhibits/events/stinkyflower.htm
36. 1999. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens/Sarasota/Florida/USA. May of 1999. Spadix grew to 1.63 m. (5 feet, 4.5 inches) high. http://www.selby.org/research/titanum/titanum99.htm
37. 1999. Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg/Kebun Raya Bogor/Java/Indonesia. July of 1999. http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/kri/a.htm
38. 1999. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 7/8/1999. Spadix grew to 1.85 m. (6 feet, 1 inch) high. Accession # is 1693. Seed was obtained from Palmengarten (Germany) in 1993. Accessions 1693-1,2, &-3 of U. Washington are clones. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
39. 1999. Huntington Botanical Garden/California/USA. 8/1/1999. Spadix grew to 1.74 m. (5 feet, 8 1/2 inches) high. Corm weights was16.33 Kg. (36 pounds). Great botanical significance, because the first seeds ever known to have been produced by an Amorphophallus titanum through self-pollination. http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/TitanArum.htm
40. 1999. Fairchild Tropical garden/Coral Gables/Florida/USA. 9/3/1999. Named "Alice". Spadix grew to 1.87 m. (6 feet and 1 1/2 inches) high. Spathe did not fully open!! Corm weights 15.88 Kg. (35 pounds) and 0.43 m. (17 inches) in diameter before repotting. http://www.ftg.org/blooms/amorphophallus99.html
41. 2000. Fullerton Arboretum/Fullerton/California/USA. 6/13/2000. Named "Tiffy". Spadix grew to 1.83 m. (6 feet) high. http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/
42. 2000. Botanical Garden/Bonn/Germany. 7/6/2000. This plant bloomed for second times in 2003. Spathe had a diameter of 1.5 m. (4 feet 11 inches) and reached almost 2.60 m. (8 feet 6 inches) in height. Bloom attracted some 15000 visitors to the Botanic Garden of the Poppelsdorf Castle. At this time the tuber had a weight of 36 kg. (79.4 pounds). http://www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/amorpho2003e.html
43. 2001. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 5/5-8/2001. Spadix grew to 1.62 m. (5 feet, 4 inches) high. Accession # is 4261-1. Accessions # 4260 & 4261 are from seeds collected by James Symon and donated to U. Washington by Bob Beer. These seeds were sown 3/20/95. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
44. 2001. Fairchild Tropical garden/Coral Gables/Florida/USA. 5/15/2001. Spadix grew to 2 m. (6 feet, 7 1/2 inches) high. Same Corm bloomed in 1998 " Mr. Stinky". http://www.ftg.org/blooms/amorphophallus01.html
45. 2001. University of Wisconsin/Madison/Wisconsin/USA. 6/7/2001. First to bloom in Wisconsin. Named "Big Bucky". Bloom attracted over 30000 visitors. Spadix grew to 2.56 m. (8 feet, 5 inches) high. Flowers were pollinated with Pollen from Selby Botanical Gardens. Over 25 seedlings were planted in the field in Spring of 2003, at Montoso, Gardens, Puerto Rico by; Mohammad Mehdi Fayyaz Ph.D. Director of Botany Greenhouses and Botanical Garden University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bryan Brunner Fulton, Ph.D. Researcher and Head Horticulture Department University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus. http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2001/index.html
46. 2001. University of Missouri/St. Louis/ Missouri/USA. 6/20/2001. Spadix grew to 1.22 m. (4 feet) high. Corm weight was 9.98 Kg. (22 pounds). http://www.umsl.edu/
47.2001. Fairchild Tropical Garden/Coral Gables/Florida/USA. 6/27/2001. Spadix grew to 6 feet high. Named "Alice". In 1999 "Alice the Amorphophallus" donated her body to science when the bloom did not open. http://www.ftg.org/blooms/amorphophallus_alice01.html
48.2001. Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg/Kebun Raya Bogor/Java/Indonesia. August of 1999. Same corm bloomed in 1994 and 1997. http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/kri/a.htm
49.2002. Royal botanical Garden/Kew/England. 5/1/2002. Spadix grew to 2.36 m. (7 feet 8.9 inches) high.
http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/timeline1.html
50. 2002. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 5/29/2002. Spadix grew to 1.68 m. (5 feet 6 inches) high. Accession # is 4260-1. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
51. 2002. Royal botanical Garden/Kew/England. 6/1/2002. Spadix grew to 2.4 m. (7 feet 10.5 inches) high. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/timeline2.html
52. 2002. Royal botanical Garden/Kew/England. 6/30/2002. "On Sunday 30 June our concerns were confirmed when the spadix collapsed without the flower having opened. It would appear that this final corm, the smallest of the three to flower in 2002, simply didn't have the energy reserves left for the flower to open". http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/timeline.html
53. 2002. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 7/12/2002. Spadix grew to 1.80 m. (5 feet 11 inches) high. Corm weight was 17.2 Kg. (38 pounds). Accession # 1693-1. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
54. 2002. Quail Botanical Gardens/Encinitas/California/USA. 7/18/2002. http://www.qbgardens.com/news/gallerys.html
55. 2002 Wisconsin/Madison/Wisconsin/USA. 7/30-31/2002. Spadix grew to 1.73 m. (5 feet, 8 inches) high. Second plant to bloom in UW/Madison. Named "Titan 2". "Titan 2" bloomed in 2005 too. http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2002/index.html.
56. 2002. Huntington Botanical Garden/California/USA. 8/7/2002. Spadix grew to 1.4 m. (4 feet, 7 inches) high. "Unfortunately, the cross pollination was not successful. After returning to the nursery, the plant withered without producing any fruit or seeds. (In 1999, fertilization resulted in viable seeds from which several healthy seedlings were propagated.) Botanists speculate that the plant may not have rested long enough between its blooms in 1999 and 2002 to store enough energy for the task". http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Titan2002/TitanBloom2002.html
57. 2002. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 8/20/2002. Spadix grew to 2.07 m. (6 feet 9.72 inches) high. Corm weight was 20.41 Kg. (45 Pounds). Accession # 1693-2. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
58. 2002. Virginia Tech/Virginia/USA. 8/30/2002. Spadix grew to 1.35 m. (4 feet, 5 inches) high and Spathe grew to 0.75 m. (29 1/2 inches) in circumference. http://www.biol.vt.edu/department/Amorphophallus_titanum.htm
59. 2003. Flecker Botanic Gardens/Cairns/Queensland/Australia. Spadix grew to 0.6 m (1 foot, 11.5 inches) high. First to bloom in Australia. http://www.cairnsattractions.com/a_flecker-botanical-gardens.html
60. 2003. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 2/25/2003. Corm weight was 34.02 Kg. (75 pounds). Accession # is 4307. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
61. 2003. Fairchild Tropical Garden/Coral Gables/Florida/USA. 5/5/2003. Named "Audrey III". Spadix grew to 1.85 m. (6 feet, 1 inch) high. Corm weight was 43 pounds when potted. http://www.ftg.org/blooms/amorphophallus2003.html
62. 2003. Fairchild Tropical Garden/Coral Gables/Florida/USA. 5/12/2003. "Mr. Stinky". Spadix grew to 2.13 m. (7 feet, 1 inch) high. They weigh 'Mr. Stinky' corm on March 11, 2003. Corm stats at repotting: 34.2 kg, (76 pounds) and 0.56 m (22 inches). diameter. Flowers were pollinated with "Audrey III" pollens and set fruits. http://www.ftg.org/blooms/amorphophallus2003.html
63. 2003. Botanical Garden/Bonn/Germany. 5/22/2003. Spadix grew to 2.74 m. (8 feet, 11.8 inches) high. Corm weight of was 77.97 Kg. (171.9 Pounds) before repotting. This plant bloomed once before in year 2000. http://botgart.uni-bonn.de/amorpho2003e.html#text
64. 2003. Fullerton Arboretum/Fullerton/California/USA. 5/23/2003. Spadix grew to 1.25 m. (4 feet, 1 inch) high. Second bloom of "Tiffy", first one was in summer of 2000. http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/tiffy2003.html
65. 2003. University of California/Davis/USA. 6/9/2003. Spadix grew to 1.1 m. (3 feet, 7 inches) high. Named "Ted". http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/titan/
66. 2003. Royal Botanical Garden/Kew/England. 6/10/2003. "2002/3 - the specimens which flowered in 2002 and 2003 were grown both from seed donated to Kew in 1995 and from tiny micro propagated plants received from the botanic garden in Bonn in 1995. To build up the storage corms, they were potted on into 750 liters (198 Gal.) containers in 1999 although they were in full leaf at the time. When the leaves died down, the largest corm was placed in a 1,000 liters (264 Gal.) pot and the two smaller ones were put into new compost in 750 liter pots. For the next 14 months, they were grown behind the scenes at Kew in their Tropical Nursery. The plants were fed regularly with a high potash liquid fertilizer. In January 2002, while the plants were dormant, they were potted up again. The largest of the three corms, one of those grown from seed, weighed an astonishing 75 kg (165 pounds). As the new bud started to emerge the plant was transferred to the Princess of Wales Conservatory. During the day, the temperature is at least 24ºC and at night it drops no lower than 19ºC. The humidity is maintained at 70-80% mimicking the conditions prevailing in the plant's original rainforest" habitat. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/timeline2003.html
67. 2003. Marie Le Conservatoire Botanique/Brest/France. 7/2/2003. Spadix grew to 2.5 m. (8 feet 2.5 inches) high. http://www.mairie-brest.fr/brest/arum_titan.htm. http://www.cjbn.uhp-nancy.fr/cbn/cbn_reseau.html#ancre.cart
68. 2003. United States Botanic Garden/Washington D.C./USA. 7/23/2003. They decided to donate the inflorescence to the National Herbarium at the Smithsonian Museum's National Museum of Natural History. http://www.usbg.gov/your-visit/Titan-Day-1.cfm
69. 2003. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 8/06/2003. Spadix grew 2.13 m. (7 feet) high. Corm weight was 51.25 Kg. (113 pounds). Accession # is 4260-1. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
70. 2004. Cibodas Botanic Garden/Bogor/Indonesia. 3/11-14/2004. Spadix grew to 2.89 m. (9.5 feet) high. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1098498/posts
71. 2004. University of Connecticut/Storrs/USA. 7/6/2004. Spadix grew to 1.5 m. (4 feet, 11 inches) high. "Corm repotted; Corm weighed 89.5 pounds and was 0.54 m. (21 inches) in diameter. Corm in good shape and repotted into herbaceous mix in new 45 gallon container. Since they were doubtful whether pollination was successful, they opted to voucher the inflorescence shortly after it toppled. It did stink really bad, but never fully reflexed as most do. We suspect that one (or both) of two things caused this bloom to act abnormally. First, due to decreased steam during summer months, the tropical house frequently dips into the mid to lower 15.5 C. (60' F) at night, even with thermostats wide open. Secondly, there were 24 hour security lights on just outside the greenhouse due to a construction project - this presumably threw off the plants circadian rhythm and thus the delay and unusual flowering times". http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/Titanum/index.html
72. 2004. Stephen F. Austin State University Mast Arboretum, Nacogdoches/Texas/USA. 7/12/2004. Spadix grew to 1.55 m. (5 feet, 1 inch) high. The SFA plant was received June 1, 2000 as a dorman fist-sized corm from Russell Adams of Gainesville Tree Farm in Florida. Corm weight was 11.80 kg. (26 pounds) in March 2004. "Big Jack" took four years to bloom. Fresh pollen from the University of Connecticut plant (which was just finishing bloom) was used in a pollination attempt; however, that failed. Pollen from "Big Jack" was shipped to Disney world plant and that pollination attempt failedas well. Jack collapsed after 91 hours open. For more information on this blooming event: http://arboretum.sfasu.edu/events/amt/index2.htm
73. 2004. Walt Disney World/Animal Kingdom Park/Florida/USA. 7/17/2004. Spadix grew to 1.55 m. (5 feet, 1 inch) high. Tuber weight was 18.15 Kg. (40 pounds). They received the pollen "Jack" July 15 from Stephen Austin Arboretum and Pollination was carried out on Saturday (7/17). http://www.aroid.org/gallery/thompson/index.html
74. 2004. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 7/24/2004. Corm weight was 20 Kg. (64 pounds). Pollen collected. Accession # is 4260-1. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
75. 2004. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 7/31/2004. Spadix grew to 2.13 m. (7feet) high. Corm weight was 30.84 Kg. (68 pounds). Pollinated with pollen taken from blooming of 7/24/2004. Top half of spadix harvested 1/25/05: 424 fruits yielded 21 seeds. Bottom half harvested 6/8/05: 291 fruits yielded 59 seeds. 4/20/05: 52 seedlings @ 6-8" tall. Accession # is 1693-3. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
76. 2004. Atlanta Botanical Garden/Georgia/USA. 8/4/2004. Spadix grew to 2.09 m. (6 feet 10 inches) high. They attempted pollination. http://www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/events_and_exhibits/events/stinkyflower.htm
77. 2004. Virginia Tech/Virginia/USA. 8/4/2004. Spadix grew to 1.47 m. (4 feet, 10 inches) high. http://www.hort.vt.edu/VTHG/titan.html
78. 2004. University of Wisconsin/Madison/Wisconsin/USA. 8/5/2004. Third one to bloom in UW-Madison. Spadix grew to 1.5 m. (4 feet 11 inches) high. "Little Stinker" The smallest of the three corm to flower in 2004. Before full bloom plant was kept in main lobby of Birge Hall (Botany Department). Since the temperature and humidity were low in the lobby, plant moved to the Botany Greenhouse for higher temperature and humidity to give it a boost to open up the spathe. After 48 hours in the greenhouse bloom was given 100 ppm of ethylene gas for 12 hours and next day spathe unfolded. http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2004/
79. 2004. University of California/Davis/California/USA. 8/13/2004. Spadix grew to 1.65 m. (5 feet 5 inches) high. Named "Tabatha the Titan". One-year-old pollen, frozen from a bloom at Cal State Fullerton ("Tiffy the Titan"), used by the conservatory staff to pollinate Tabatha. A month after her bloom, Tabatha the Titan was on her way to making seeds at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, reports Curator Ernesto Sandoval. http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/titan/
80. 2004. Cambridge University/Cambridge/England. 9/2/2004. Spadix grew to 1.54 m. (5 feet 1/2 inch) high. "Pollen couriered in from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. The attempt to pollinate the plant failed and the plant collapsed completely on Tuesday 28th September 2004. This was probably due to the pollen being to old." First time to bloom in Cambridge. http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/amorpho1.html
81. 2004. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 10/04/2004. spadix grew to 1.22 m. (4 feet) high. Accession # is 1693-2. http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse/
82. 2004. Royal Botanic Gardens/Sydney/Australia. 10/6/2004. First time to bloom in Sydney and second time in Australia. Plant from 1993. http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/
83. 2005. Eden Project/Bodelva/Cornwall/England. 4/9/2005. Spadix grew to 2.24 m. (7 feet, 4 inches) high. http://www.edenproject.com/484_6008.htm
84. 2005. Royal Botanical Garden/Kew/England. 4/21/2005. Spadix grew to 2.23 m. (7 feet, 4 inches) high. Pollens used from the specimen that bloomed almost simultaneously at the same time at the Eden Project. Fruits have developed and reached maturity. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/history.html
85. 2005. Fairchild Tropical Garden/Coral Gables/Florida/USA. 5/14/2005. " Alice". Spadix grew to 1.9 m. (6feet, 2.5 inches) high. On March 30, 2005 before repotting corm was 36.3 Kg. (80 pounds), 0.30 m. (12 inches) high, 0.53 m. (21 inches) in diameter and 1.75 m. (69 inches) in circumference. http://www.ftg.org/blooms/amorphophallus04-2005.html
86. 2005. University of California/Davis/USA. 5/30/2005. Spadix grew to 1.12 m. (3 feet, 8 inches) inches high. "Ted". Ted's Corm weighed 19.50 Kg. (43 pounds) when it produced a bud on April 2. Plant displayed at the Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco. http://www.conservatoryofflowers.org/press/press052705.htm
87. 2005. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens/Sarasota/Florida/ USA. June of 2005. http://www.selby.org/
88. 2005. University of Wisconsin/Madison/Wisconsin/USA. 6/9/2005. Spadix of "Big Bucky" grew to 2.51 m. (8 feet 3 inches) high. Second time that "Big Bucky" bloomed. 'Big Bucky' on 6/7/01 was 2.56 m. (8 feet 5 inches) high and started to open at 12:45 P.M. This year it bloomed 6/9/05 and started to open at 12:45 P.M. too!!! http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum/. http://webstreamer2.doit.wisc.edu/titan_arum/
89. 2005. Royal botanical Garden/Kew/England. 6/18/2005. "Spadix grew to 1.7 m. (5 feet, 7 inches) high. This particular flower grew from a much smaller corm and they didn't even expect it to flower in 2005. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/timeline2005b.html
90. 2005. University of Wisconsin/Madison/Wisconsin/USA. 6/28/2005. Spadix grew to 1.55m. (5 feet 1 inch) high. Second time that ''Titan 2" bloomed. It started to open on 7/30/02 at 2:00 P.M. and this year on 6/28/05 at 2:00 P.M.!!! Fifth bloom in UW Madison Botany Greenhouses. http://www.news.wisc.edu/11311.html
91. 2005. University of Washington/Seattle/USA. 6/29-30/2005. Displayed at the Volunteer Park Conservatory. Spadix grew to 1.75 m. (5 feet, 9 inches) high and 1.2 m. (47 inches) in diameter. Named "Waldo". Female flowers were pollinated with "Ted" pollen from UC/Davis/California. "Waldo" did not cross with "Ted'. Accession # is 4260-3. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002352851_plant30m.html.
92. 2005. Myriad Botanical Gardens/Oklahoma City/Oklahoma/USA. 6/29/2005. Spadix grew to 1.07 m. (3 feet, 6 inches) high. Named "King Richard". Flowers were pollinated with FBTG pollens. http://www.myriadgardens.com/titanum.html
93. 2005. University of California Botanical Garden/Berkeley/California/USA. 7/14/2005. Named "Trudy the Titan". Spadix grew to 5 feet, 5 inches high. Grown by Bill Weaver/California and displayed in UC Berkeley Botanical garden. Spathe grew to 42 inches in diameter. Pollinated with pollen from UC/davis/California. http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/images/whatsnew/titanArum/index.html and http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/12/BAGUDDMB7M1.DTL&type=printable.
94. 2005. Botanic Garden/Gothenburg/Sweden. 7/14/2005. Spadix grew to 1.43 m. (4 feet, 8.2 inches) high. http://w3.goteborg.se/botaniska/AmorphophallusTitanum.html
95. 2005. Smith College/Northampton/Massachusetts/USA. 8/8/2005. First blooming in Massachusetts. Plant grown from seed collected by Dr. James Symon in 1995. Corm weighed 18.14 Kg. (40 pounds) in spring of 2005. http://www.smith.edu/garden/Conservatory/amorphophallus.ht.ml
96. 2005. Walt Disney World/Animal Kingdom Park/Florida/USA. 9/5/2005. Spadix grew to 1.12 m. (44 inches) high. The spathe did slightly open and emit odor, but the stunting of the inflorescence turned out to be due to rot in the corm. They could not save the corm. There are still 2 large plants remaining in their collection and they've acquired 5 more seedlings for the future. So they looked forward to applying what we've learned from our mistakes to future flowerings. http://www.aroid.org/gallery/thompson/2005/index.html
97. 2005. Royal botanical Garden/Kew/England. 9/28/2005. " A third titan arum for 2005 flowered on 28 September, a little later than earlier estimates, perhaps due to the cooler autumn temperatures and shortening day length. This particular flower grew from a record-breaking corm which weighed in at 91kg (200.62 pounds) when repotted in June this year. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/timeline2005c.html
98. 2005. Stuttgart Zoological and Botanic Garden/Stuttgart/Germany.10/20/2005. Spadix grew to 2.94 m. (9 feet 7.5 inches) high. Named "Diva". It took 11 years for this corm to bloom. Corm was weighing 40 Kg. (88.18 pounds) when brought from University of Frankfurt to the Stuttgart gardens. Coverage in Environment 7 Nature news stories. http://www.wilhelma.de. http://www.bgci.org.uk/botanic_gardens/stuttgart_titan.html
99. 2005. United States Botanic Garden in Washington D.C./USA. 11/19-21/2005. Spadix grew to 1.33m. (4 feet, 4.5 inches) high. Corm weighed over 45 Kg. (100 pounds). Pollens collected from the 2003 flowering (USBG specimen) were used to pollinate this plant. http://persoon.si.edu/titan/ or http://www.usbg.gov/
100. 2006. Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany . 5/13/2006. (first titan arum with more than one inflorescence). http://botgart.uni-bonn.de/o_samm/amor2006.html
101. 2006. Fullerton Arboretum/Fullerton/California/USA. 6/5/ 2006. third bloom of "Tiffy". http://arboretum.fullerton.edu/default.asp
102. 2006. Virginia Tech Biological Sciences Greenhouse, Blacksburg, VA. 8/5/2006. http://www.biol.vt.edu/greenhouse/amorphophallus.htm
103. 2006. Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York. 8/7/2006. http://www.bbg.org/vis2/2006/titan/
104. 2006. Volunteer Park (Seattle) Conservatory, Seattle, WA. 8/15/2006. (on loan from the University of Washington). http://www.seattle.gov/parks/default.htm
105. 2006. Laconia NH Lakeport Fire Station, Laconia, NH. 8/21/2006. http://www.laconiaschools.org/corpseflower/
Name: Louis M Ricciardiello DMD
Location: Laconia, NH
Date: 8/21/2006
Named: "Tilly the Titan"
First bloom in New Hampshire.
Bloom was displayed for charity fundraiser.
Origin: Plant grew from seed from the Univ. of Wisconsin /Madison 2001 bloom.
Tuber weight: 119.5lbs
Spadix Height: 82"(from soil).
106. 2006. Laconia NH Lakeport Fire Station, Laconia, NH. 9/15/2006. http://www.laconiaschools.org/corpseflower/
Name: Louis M Ricciardiello DMD
Date: 9/15/2006
Origin: Plant grown from seed from the Univ. of Wisconsin /Madison 2001 bloom.
Tuber weight: 75 lbs
Height spadix: 85" (from soil).
Width spathe: 48"
Location: Gilford, NH
107. 2006. Laconia NH Lakeport Fire Station, Laconia, NH. 10/9/2006. http://www.laconiaschools.org/corpseflower/
Name: Louis M Ricciardiello DMD
Date: 10/9/2006
Origin: Plant grown from seed from the Univ. of Wisconsin /Madison 2001 bloom.
Tuber weight: 63.5 lbs
Height spadix: 73.5" (from soil).
Width spathe: 36"
Location: Gilford, NH
108. 2006. Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia. 11/2/2006. http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/blooming-miracle/2006/11/02/1162339965565.html
109. 2006. Laconia NH Lakeport Fire Station, Laconia, NH. 11/20/2006. http://www.laconiaschools.org/corpseflower/
Name: Louis M Ricciardiello DMD
Date: 11/20/2006
Origin: Plant grown from seed from the Univ. of Wisconsin /Madison 2001 bloom.
Tuber weight: unknown (but estimated weight 50-60 lbs)
Height spadix: 72" (from soil).
Width spathe: 42"
Location: Gilford, NH
110. 2007. Laconia NH Lakeport Fire Station, Laconia, NH. 2/12/2007. http://www.laconiaschools.org/corpseflower/
Name: Louis M Ricciardiello DMD
Date: 2/12/2007
Origin: Plant grown from seed from the Univ. of Wisconsin /Madison 2001 bloom.
Tuber weight: 42 lbs
Height: spadix: 73'" (from soil).
E-mail address: pinelodg@metrocast.net
Location: Gilford, NH
111. 2007. Eden Project/Bodelva/Cornwall/England. Feb. 2007. http://www.edenproject.com/2522.html
112. 2007. Laconia NH Lakeport Fire Station, Laconia, NH. 3/3/2007 . http://www.laconiaschools.org/corpseflower/
Name: Louis M Ricciardiello DMD
Date: 3/3/2007
Origin: Plant grown from seed from the Univ. of Wisconsin /Madison 2001bloom.
Tuber weight: 57 lbs
Height: spadix: 84" (from soil).
E-mail address: pinelodg@metrocast.net
Location: Gilford, NH
113. 2007. Royal Botanic garden Kew. 4/22/07. http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/timeline2007.html#latest
114. 2007. University of California Davis. 5/7/2007 Ted blooms again - This will be his third blooming since June 2003. Ted is Amorphophallus titanum, "The Corpse Flower". Over 4 feet. Ted the Titan", a Titan Arum or Corpse Flower, has bloomed at the San Francisco Flower Conservatory (May 30th - June 1st, 2005). 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. "Ted the Titan", on loan from the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, is merely 10 years old. http://greenhouse.ucdavis.edu/conservatory/index.html
115. 2007. St. Peter, MN, home of Gustavus Adolphus college. 5/13/2007. Nick Name: Perry Mummy.The pollen will be stored at -80 C in gelatin capsules over powdered milk as a desiccant, awaiting mating with another Titan Arum. Fourteen years of careful cultivation came to a fuming fruition at Gustavus Adolphus College Saturday night, just in time to give mom a smelly treat for Mother's Day.
116. 2007. UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens. 7/1/2007. Bella grew to 60 inches tall. http://gardens.uncc.edu/Titan%20Arum.htm
117. 2007. University of Wisconsin/Madison/Wisconsin/USA. 7/15/2007. Little Stinkers bloomed for second time.
Height: 57 3/4 inches
Width: 36 inches
118. 2007. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland, OH. 7/23/2007. The Zoo has had its titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) for 13 years, and this is the first time it bloomed. It was obtained in 1994 from the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Plant, nicknamed Cronus.
Height: 57 inches
Width: 32 inches
http://www.clemetzoo.com/animal_plant/horticulture/cronus.asp
119. 2007. University of California Botanical Garden. 8/7/2007. Bloom grew to 6 feet tall.The plant has been raised from seed here in the Garden since 1995 and this is its first bloom. Following the national tradition of naming the plant beginning with the letter "T", we have dubbed it "Titania" after the Queen of the Fairies in William Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream. http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/program/event_des/titan.html
120. 2007. "Giardino dei Semplici" Botanical Garden, located in Florence, Italy, and managed by the Natural History Museum of the local University. 8/13,/2007. You will find below links to the Museum's webpage and to other articles on the bloom found in the web (unfortunately in Italian only): http://www.msn.unifi.it/Article152.html
121. 2007. Eastern Connecticut State University, Biology Department, Willimantic, CT 06226. September 2007. Ross Koning Professor of Biology. koning@easternct.edu. 860-465-5327. http://plantphys.info/greenhouse/Titan2007.html
122. 2007. The City University of New York. Lehman College Greenhouse. 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West. Bronx, New York 10468. September 2007. It took 5 years of care, but our Amorphophallus titanum is sending up its first inflorescence. The corm weighed 65.5 pounds at last transplant. This was grown from a seed that I received from our good friend Mohammad Fayyaz at U. Wisconsin Madison in 2002. Offspring of "Big Bucky" and "Mister Magnificent". http://www.lehman.edu/deannss/biology/greenhouse.html