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Titan arum
Watch it grow - second 2005 flowering
Latest news:
The second titan arum for 2005 flowered overnight on Saturday
18 June, having begun to unfurl from mid-day. By
5pm it was already more than half way open and starting
to emit it's pungent aroma. Whilst we would have
expected it to last longer, by the morning of Sunday
19 June it had already to a large extent closed up, possibly due to the
extermely high temperatures.
This particular
flower grew from a much smaller corm and we didn't even
expect it to flower this year. It did not however reach
the record size of other recent flowerings.
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14 June 2005
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16 June 2005
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18 June 2005, 2pm
From mid-day the flower showed signs of opening
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18 June 2005, 5pm
The flower is already half-open
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19 June 2005, 10am
The flower has opened overnight and already started
to close up
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20 June 2005
In the current high temperatures it looks like it will
collapse very quickly
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Compare this with previous flowerings in our image galleries
First
2002 flowering
Second
2002 flowering
Third
2002 flowering
2003 flowering
First 2005 Flowering
Second 2005 Flowering
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