Titan Arum June, July 2005

| titan arum 2004 | titan arum 2002 | titan arum 2001 |

The titan arum that bloomed here at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 2001 bloomed again. There are also some smaller titan arum plants there, and another larger, older titan arum plant has a shoot coming up that could also develop into a flower. Once in a lifetime things are starting to happen once a year!

pictures:

a titan arum slide show

titan arum bud

• bud
• close up 1
• close up 2

titan arum starting to open

• opening 1
• opening 2
• opening 3
• opening 4
• the crowd
• with another shoot that might turn into a flower
• close up 1
• close up 2

murky dark pictures of titan arum in full bloom

• crowd at night
• with little lights from cameras
• at night 2
• slac visits the titan arum 1 josh, tony, gaby, liana, john, kyle (ps. the slac page is at http://slacuw.com )
• slac visits the titan arum 2
• slac visits the titan arum 3 tony, wendy, liana

titan arum wilted

• starting to wilt
• infrared pictures (weird streaky pictures from bad scans)
  • wilted
  • wilted closeup
  • hole cut in back for pollination
  • the wilted flower and the shoot of the second flower still coming up
  • the shoot of the second flower before it looked like a flower bud

the second titan arum bloom, and the wilted first bloom (infrared and color pictures):

• view of the greenhouse
• wilted first flower and second open flower
• second bloom
• cut out in back for pollination
• second titan arum bloom
• the two flowers
• 1st titan arum wilted closeup
• 1st flower wilted
• 2nd flower, back with cutout
• 2nd titan arum
• closeup of 2nd flower

two wilted titan arums

• 2nd wilted bloom from front
• 2nd wilted bloom from back
• 2nd bloom cut out closeup
• wilted 1st bloom close up
• wilted 1st bloom
• two wilted titan arums 1
• two wilted titan arums 2

links:

my pictures of past titan arum blooms:

• titan arum 2004
• titan arum 2002
• titan arum 2001
• a titan arum slide show

other pages about the titan arum:

• http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2005/ - The UW-Madison Botany department's Titan Arum 2005 page
• A news release about this year's titan arum bloom

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