Titum Arum - The Corpse Flower of Sumatra

In much the same manner as people touch a wall with the sign 'Wet Paint', it seems you can't keep anyone away from a giant flower that is known to start a stink. We don't want to hear second-hand, we want to go have a whiff for ourselves.
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clarrisse1 How do you go about getting one of these flowers? 7/2/2007
SarahB Three years ago my mum was given two tubers that were brought back from Russia, they were only as big as an anenome - she planted them and low and behold over a few weeks a 'mini tree' grew. It was about two foot high. At the end of the summer it began to look sorry for itself and she put it in the greenhouse. The next summer it appear again - this time with three new 'trees' - the largest got to about three foot. This year there were about nine - the largest of which was nearly four foot tall - and the tuber so large that she had to repot it. We have been looking to find out what it was and have been saddened to find that it produced no flowers .... Until we had it confirmed by Kew gardens that it is a titum lily (now we are glad it is never going to produce flowers! 1/22/2006
KITTY New York Botanican Gardens connected to the Bronx Zoo? 11/21/2005
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