Corpse Plant

[Skrymr]

I thought I would post this for any horticulture enthusiasts out there. My fiancee is a Hort. major at the University of Wisconsin River Falls. Right now they have a corpse plant blooming. I've been following it for a couple weeks now, and it has grown a couple feet in that time(at least). Here is a live video link.

http://www2.uwrf.edu/college-of-agriculture/CorpseFlowerStream.htm

 

[furious1]

These are cool. We have the Amorphophallus titanum at the institution where I work in California, and have had two blooms in recent years. At their peak they smell just rotten. It's great that the one at U. Wisconsin River Falls blooming right before Halloween--how topical.

 

[malocchio]

does it smell worse than corpse fruit DURIAN ???

 

[Skrymr]

These are cool. We have the Amorphophallus titanum at the institution where I work in California, and have had two blooms in recent years. At their peak they smell just rotten. It's great that the one at U. Wisconsin River Falls blooming right before Halloween--how topical.

I thought it was great too. I'm about 5 hours away, so I haven't smelled it. I wish I could though.

does it smell worse than corpse fruit DURIAN ???

I've never smelled either one. Is Durian really that bad?

 

[luvmysuper]

Those plants are pretty neat.
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[furious1]

does it smell worse than corpse fruit DURIAN ???

Imagine a durian 7 feet tall, and 4 feet in diameter, and, well, you get the idea.....

In the wild they bloom once every 100 years or so; the scent needs to be powerful to attract an orgy of insect pollination. In the United States they have been crowd-pleasers (30,000 lined up at my institution in 2004) so they have been "artificially inseminated" (we actually have a botanist who does this) and bloom more often. I believe that you can buy them at about $500 a plant if you want to have the thing bloom in your yard. Maybe I'll get one and PIF it!

 

[Walker]

Those plants are pretty neat.
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Now that's comedy haha

 

[malocchio]

Those plants are pretty neat.
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great job ! gotta love good software !

 

[malocchio]

I thought it was great too. I'm about 5 hours away, so I haven't smelled it. I wish I could though.




I've never smelled either one. Is Durian really that bad?

durian is BAD ! this must be worse though...the phillipinos in the sf bay area make ice cream out of the durian,cookies also.I don't have the guts to taste either one !