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The Titan arum (''Amorphophallus titanum'') or "Corpse plant", in Indonesia "bunga bangkai" (''bunga'' means flower, while ''bangkai'' means corpse or cadaver, the same title is also attributed to the famous ''Rafflesia''), has the largest inflorescence in the world (but not the largest ''single'' flower; that distinction belongs to ''Rafflesia''). The inflorescence reaches 2 metres tall, taller than a man. Like the related arum and calla, it consists of a fragrant spadix of flowers wrapped by a spathe, which looks like the flower's single petal. The "fragrance" of the inflorescence resembles rotting meat, attracting carrion-eating beetles and Flesh Flies ''(family Sarcophagidae)'' that pollinate it. Both male and female flowers grow in the same inflorescence. The female flowers open first, then a day or two following, the male flowers open. This prevents the flower from self-pollinating. After the flower dies back, a single leaf, which reaches the size of a small tree, grows from the underground Rhizome. The leaf grows on a green stalk that branches into three sections at the top, each containing many leaflets. The leaf structure can reach up to 6 m tall and 5 m across. Each year, the old leaf dies and a new one grows in its place. When the corm has stored enough energy, it becomes dormant for as many as 4 months and the process repeats. ==Cultivation== First discovered in Sumatra in 1878, the plant flowers only infrequently in the wild and even more rarely when cultivated. It first flowered in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1889, with around 60 cultivated blossoms since then. The number of cultivated plants has increased in recent years, and it is not uncommon for there to be five or more flowering events in gardens around the world in a single year. The tallest bloom in cultivation was achieved in 2003 at the [http://www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/amorpho2003e.html Botanical Gardens] of Bonn, Germany. The event was acknoledged by the Guinness Book of Records (see the [http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/o_samm/guinness.htm certificate]). {| |+ Publicised flowering events in cultivation since May 2003 |- ! Date !! Location !! External link |- | May 12, 2003 || Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, (the garden's fifth since 1998) || [http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus2003.html] |- | May 22, 2003 || Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany || [http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/amorpho2003e.html] |- | June 9, 2003 || UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, University of California, Davis || [http://greenhouse.ucdavis.edu/titan] |- | June 10, 2003 || Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew, London (Kew's fourth since April 2002) || [http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/index.html] |- | July 2, 2003 || Le Conservatoire Botanique, Brest || [http://www.mairie-brest.fr/brest/arum_titan.htm] (in French language) |- | July 23, 2003 || United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC || [http://www.usbg.gov/your-visit/Titan-Day-1.cfm] |- | August 4, 2004 || University of Wisconsin, Madison (the university's third since 2001) || [http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2004/] |- | August 13, 2004 || UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, University of California, Davis || [http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/titan/] |- | September 2, 2004 || Cambridge University Botanic Garden, University of Cambridge || [http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/amorpho1.html] |- | 7 October, 2004 || Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Sydney, Australia || [http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/whats_new/titan_arum_photos] |- | 11 April, 2005 || Eden Project, St. Austell, UK || [http://www.edenproject.com/484_6007.htm] |- | 21 April, 2005 || Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew, London (Kew's fifth since April 2002) || [http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/plants/titan/timeline2005.html] |- | May 14, 2005 || Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, (the garden's fifth since 1998) || [http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus04-2005.html] |- | May 30, 2005 || San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers || [http://www.conservatoryofflowers.org/whatsnew/index.htm] |- | June 9, 2005 || University of Wisconsin, Madison (the university's fourth since 2001) || [http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2005/] |} ==External links== * [http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Titan2002/Titan2002.html Titan at Huntington Botanical Gardens, California] * [http://www.hortus.leidenuniv.nl/english/index.php3?m=13&c=35 Titan at Hortus Botanicus Leiden] * [http://news.wisc.edu/titanarum/ Titan Arum at University of Wisconsin, Madison] * [http://webstreamer2.doit.wisc.edu/titan_arum/ 2005 Bloom] * [http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/06/11/0325216.shtml?tid=133&tid=14 2005 Bloom Slashdot discussion] * [http://www.callipygian.com/3D/corpseplant.html 3D Photo of 2004 bloom at Walt Disney World] (Requires red/cyan 3D Glasses) Alismatales
I am not sure we should list every known bloom since there seem to have been a lot of them. Reading the current page, it seems like the flower has only bloomed 3 or 4 times, which is not true. Also, people keep track of the size of the different blossoms, I have not included that information here. List of known Titan arum blooms: * 1889 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (First known flowering not in the wild) http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/history.html * 1926 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/history.html * 1932 Botanic Garden of Wageningen in the Netherlands http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/amorpho2003e.html * August 1937 New York Botanical Garden, NY http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus-history.html * July 2, 1939 New York Botanical Garden, NY http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus-history.html * July 1996 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/history.html * June 25, 1998 Fairchild Tropical Garden http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus98.html * May 21, 1999 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens http://www.selby.org/research/titanum/titan2k1.htm * Summer 1999, University of Washington, Seattle http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/05-02archive/k052902.html * July 7, 1999 Fullerton Arboretum California State University at Fullerton http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/1999archive/07-99archive/k070999a.html * August 1, 1999 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/TitanIntro.htm * September 3, 1999 Fairchild Tropical Garden http://www.ftg.org/blooms/amorphophallus.html * July 7, 2000 Botanic Gardens University of Bonn http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/amorpho2003e.html * June 12, 2000 Atlanta Botanical Garden http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/index.html * June 13, 2000 Fullerton Arboretum California State University at Fullerton http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/index.html * May 7, 2001 University of Washington, Seattle http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus01-2.html * May 15, 2001 Fairchild Tropical Garden http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus01.html * May 2001 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens http://www.selby.org/research/titanum/titan2k1.htm * June 7, 2001 University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2001/ * June 27, 2001 Fairchild Tropical Garden http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus-history.html * May 1, 2002 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/timeline1.html * May 29, 2002 University of Washington, Seattle http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/05-02archive/k052902.html * June 1, 2002 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/timeline2.html * June 20, 2002 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/timeline.html * July 31, 2002 University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2002/ * August 7, 2002 Huntington Botanical Gardens http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Titan2002/Titan2002.html * May 23, 2003 Fullerton Arboretum California State University at Fullerton http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/index.html * May 23, 2003 Botanic Gardens University of Bonn http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/amorpho2003e.html * June 10, 2003 University of California, Davis http://www.magpienest.org/feathersofhope/archives/nature_and_place/ * June 10, 2003 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/index.html * July 2, 2003 Le Conservatoire Botanique, Brest http://www.mairie-brest.fr/brest/arum_photos.htm * July 23, 2003 United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC More Resources: * http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/index.html At the bottom they have links to other places with the titan
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The Titan arum (''Amorphophallus titanum'') or "Corpse plant", in Indonesia "bunga bangkai" (''bunga'' means flower, while ''bangkai'' means corpse or cadaver, the same title is also attributed to the famous ''Rafflesia''), has the largest inflorescence in the world (but not the largest ''single'' flower; that distinction belongs to ''Rafflesia''). The inflorescence reaches 2 metres tall, taller than a man. Like the related arum and calla, it consists of a fragrant spadix of flowers wrapped by a spathe, which looks like the flower's single petal. The "fragrance" of the inflorescence resembles rotting meat, attracting carrion-eating beetles and Flesh Flies ''(family Sarcophagidae)'' that pollinate it. Both male and female flowers grow in the same inflorescence. The female flowers open first, then a day or two following, the male flowers open. This prevents the flower from self-pollinating. After the flower dies back, a single leaf, which reaches the size of a small tree, grows from the underground Rhizome. The leaf grows on a green stalk that branches into three sections at the top, each containing many leaflets. The leaf structure can reach up to 6 m tall and 5 m across. Each year, the old leaf dies and a new one grows in its place. When the corm has stored enough energy, it becomes dormant for as many as 4 months and the process repeats. ==Cultivation== First discovered in Sumatra in 1878, the plant flowers only infrequently in the wild and even more rarely when cultivated. It first flowered in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1889, with around 60 cultivated blossoms since then. The number of cultivated plants has increased in recent years, and it is not uncommon for there to be five or more flowering events in gardens around the world in a single year. The tallest bloom in cultivation was achieved in 2003 at the [http://www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/amorpho2003e.html Botanical Gardens] of Bonn, Germany. The event was acknoledged by the Guinness Book of Records (see the [http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/o_samm/guinness.htm certificate]). {| |+ Publicised flowering events in cultivation since May 2003 |- ! Date !! Location !! External link |- | May 12, 2003 || Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, (the garden's fifth since 1998) || [http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus2003.html] |- | May 22, 2003 || Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany || [http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/amorpho2003e.html] |- | June 9, 2003 || UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, University of California, Davis || [http://greenhouse.ucdavis.edu/titan] |- | June 10, 2003 || Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew, London (Kew's fourth since April 2002) || [http://www.kew.org/plants/titan/index.html] |- | July 2, 2003 || Le Conservatoire Botanique, Brest || [http://www.mairie-brest.fr/brest/arum_titan.htm] (in French language) |- | July 23, 2003 || United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC || [http://www.usbg.gov/your-visit/Titan-Day-1.cfm] |- | August 4, 2004 || University of Wisconsin, Madison (the university's third since 2001) || [http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2004/] |- | August 13, 2004 || UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, University of California, Davis || [http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/titan/] |- | September 2, 2004 || Cambridge University Botanic Garden, University of Cambridge || [http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/amorpho1.html] |- | 7 October, 2004 || Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Sydney, Australia || [http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/whats_new/titan_arum_photos] |- | 11 April, 2005 || Eden Project, St. Austell, UK || [http://www.edenproject.com/484_6007.htm] |- | 21 April, 2005 || Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew, London (Kew's fifth since April 2002) || [http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/plants/titan/timeline2005.html] |- | May 14, 2005 || Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, (the garden's fifth since 1998) || [http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus04-2005.html] |- | May 30, 2005 || San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers || [http://www.conservatoryofflowers.org/whatsnew/index.htm] |- | June 9, 2005 || University of Wisconsin, Madison (the university's fourth since 2001) || [http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2005/] |} ==External links== * [http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Titan2002/Titan2002.html Titan at Huntington Botanical Gardens, California] * [http://www.hortus.leidenuniv.nl/english/index.php3?m=13&c=35 Titan at Hortus Botanicus Leiden] * [http://news.wisc.edu/titanarum/ Titan Arum at University of Wisconsin, Madison] * [http://webstreamer2.doit.wisc.edu/titan_arum/ 2005 Bloom] * [http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/06/11/0325216.shtml?tid=133&tid=14 2005 Bloom Slashdot discussion] * [http://www.callipygian.com/3D/corpseplant.html 3D Photo of 2004 bloom at Walt Disney World] (Requires red/cyan 3D Glasses) Alismatales
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I am not sure we should list every known bloom since there seem to have been a lot of them. Reading the current page, it seems like the flower has only bloomed 3 or 4 times, which is not true. Also, people keep track of the size of the different blossoms, I have not included that information here. List of known Titan arum blooms: * 1889 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (First known flowering not in the wild) http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/history.html * 1926 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/history.html * 1932 Botanic Garden of Wageningen in the Netherlands http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/amorpho2003e.html * August 1937 New York Botanical Garden, NY http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus-history.html * July 2, 1939 New York Botanical Garden, NY http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus-history.html * July 1996 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/history.html * June 25, 1998 Fairchild Tropical Garden http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus98.html * May 21, 1999 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens http://www.selby.org/research/titanum/titan2k1.htm * Summer 1999, University of Washington, Seattle http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/05-02archive/k052902.html * July 7, 1999 Fullerton Arboretum California State University at Fullerton http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/1999archive/07-99archive/k070999a.html * August 1, 1999 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/TitanIntro.htm * September 3, 1999 Fairchild Tropical Garden http://www.ftg.org/blooms/amorphophallus.html * July 7, 2000 Botanic Gardens University of Bonn http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/amorpho2003e.html * June 12, 2000 Atlanta Botanical Garden http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/index.html * June 13, 2000 Fullerton Arboretum California State University at Fullerton http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/index.html * May 7, 2001 University of Washington, Seattle http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus01-2.html * May 15, 2001 Fairchild Tropical Garden http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus01.html * May 2001 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens http://www.selby.org/research/titanum/titan2k1.htm * June 7, 2001 University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2001/ * June 27, 2001 Fairchild Tropical Garden http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus-history.html * May 1, 2002 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/timeline1.html * May 29, 2002 University of Washington, Seattle http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/05-02archive/k052902.html * June 1, 2002 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/timeline2.html * June 20, 2002 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/timeline.html * July 31, 2002 University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2002/ * August 7, 2002 Huntington Botanical Gardens http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Titan2002/Titan2002.html * May 23, 2003 Fullerton Arboretum California State University at Fullerton http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/index.html * May 23, 2003 Botanic Gardens University of Bonn http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/botgart/amorpho2003e.html * June 10, 2003 University of California, Davis http://www.magpienest.org/feathersofhope/archives/nature_and_place/ * June 10, 2003 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/titan/index.html * July 2, 2003 Le Conservatoire Botanique, Brest http://www.mairie-brest.fr/brest/arum_photos.htm * July 23, 2003 United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC More Resources: * http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/index.html At the bottom they have links to other places with the titan
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