List of publicised titan arum blooms in cultivation
WSU Vancouver Titan Arum Bloom July 2024
Date: July 27 2024, Location Washington State University Vancouver, 3rd consecutive bloom in a row. We believe we have 4 corms in the pot and each one is on its own time clock. Getting under the dirt is the next step.
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This list of publicized titan arum blooms in cultivation is a partial listing of flowering events of the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) in cultivation.
Spadix grew to 0.89 m. (2 feet 11 inches) high. Plant grown from wild-collected seed discovered by Dr. Jim Symon. The seed was planted in February 1995, and grown in the University of Missouri/St. Louis greenhouse by Kathy Pickett Upton. "Archie" was the very first Amorphophallus titanum to bloom in the United States since 1939.
Spadix grew to 1.22 m. (4 feet) high. Corm weight was 9.98 kg. (22 pounds). Grown in the University of Missouri-St. Louis greenhouse by Kathy Pickett Upton.
Back-to-back blooms for this specimen (13-month dormancy with no intervening leaf stage, possibly a first?); final height 70.5" (about 1.79m), UConn's largest bloom to date.
Second bloom from a specimen that was planted in February 1995 and first bloomed in 1998. At the time, "Archie", a nickname derived from the word "archetype", was the very first Amorphophallus titanum to bloom in the United States since 1939. Bloom height at 1.35 m (53 inches) and weight of 10 kg. This is the 4th bloom to occur at the University of Missouri–St. Louis under the care and supervision of Kathy Pickett Upton.
Third bloom in Sweden, second bloom in Bergianska trädgården. First bloom of "Cronus". Bloom reached 1.42 meter, first bloom in Sweden from a specimen from Jim Symon's seeds.
Height of 1.42 m (56 inches) and circumference of 0.94 m (37 inches). First bloom from a specimen also from Jim Symon's seeds. "Betty" is the 5th bloom to occur at the University of Missouri–St. Louis under the care and supervision of Kathy Pickett Upton.
Tuberous offset from a specimen that flowered in 2005. Tuber weighed 80 kg and reached a height of 2.82M. Pollen from the bloom on June 3 was used to successfully pollinate this bloom. Fruit was collected in November of the same year.
Height of 1.83 m (72 in) and circumference of 1.4 m (55 in). Second bloom from a specimen that also bloomed 2 years ago in 2009 and was nicknamed "Jim Symon", in honor of the collector of the seed. This is the 3rd consecutive bloom this year and the 6th bloom to occur at the University of Missouri–St. Louis over the past 16 years under the care and supervision of Kathy Pickett Upton.
The plant, called "BOB, too", was grown from a seed collected in Sumatra in 1993 by Dr. James Symon while working with David Attenborough on filming the BBC nature documentary The Private Life of Plants.
Planted 10 years ago from a seed from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Titan, this was the first bloom for "Titania". The bloom was 55 inches in height. She is expected to bloom again in 2–3 years.
This plant, named "Tiger" after the Roseville High mascot, was the first Titan Arum brought to bloom by a public high school. It was grown from a seed that sprouted in October 2002, and reached a maximum height of 94 cm.
This specimen was named "Clive". It was expected to bloom around May 14 but no confirmation found. Pollen from "Clive" was donated to Ohio State University to pollinate a bloom named "Jesse" later in May.
First flowering of a Titan Arum at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The Titan Arum was grown from seed sent by Jim Symon to Kathy Upton at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Named "Jesse" to honor OSU track star and Olympian Jesse Owens. Bloom began to open at 3:21 PM on May 25, 2012. Height was 5' 7.75" Tuber weight 35 lbs. This is second recorded bloom at OSU.
First bloom for specimen "Maudine", tuber division of specimen "Jesse". Named for 1926 OSU Homecoming Queen. Bloom reached 54.5" and tuber weighed 25 lbs.
Plant named Romero, in honor of George A. Romero, whose 1968 cult classic Night of the Living Dead was filmed in the Pittsburgh region. Expected to bloom in mid-August.
Fourth bloom for the "Velvet Queen." Previously bloomed on June 21, 2008, June 9, 2010, and July 1, 2012. 2014 inflorescence was 76.0" tall. Tuber was 62 lb.
First blooming at a Canadian university. 'Phoebe' became the first titan arum bloom anywhere in the world in 2015. Phoebe measured 1.7 metres on Jan 5, 2015.
Fifth bloom for the "Velvet Queen." Previously bloomed on June 21, 2008, June 9, 2010, July 1, 2012, and July 11, 2014. 2016 inflorescence was 96.0" tall. Spathe was 48" wide. Tuber was estimated to be 100 lb.
"Lupin" first bloom. Bloomed at 76" and 38" wide at furthest point of spathe, fullest extent reached roughly 3 a.m. 13 year old plant, tuber weighed 51 lbs. Grown by Brandon Huber and Diane Mays
"Tiny the Titan" flowered on December 28, 2016, reaching 1.77 metres tall and 1.1 metres wide, grown by Jeno Kapitany and Tom Kapitany at Collectors Corner, Garden world in Australia. A 96-hour livestream was hosted on YouTube of the flowering event, and a video was produced of the flowering.[242]
Nicknamed 'Titus', the flowering occurred 2 years after 'Tiny Titan' the other Titan Arum held at the gardens. 'Titus' last bloomed in 2004, and there are plans to pollinate from this flower using pollen from Edinburgh
'Corona' bloomed from a 35.6 lb (16.1 kg) corm, and reached a height of 74" (188 cm); however, failed to open due to light pollution from an overhead campus security light. Corona is a seedling from the UC Davis Conservatory.
First of three plants to bloom. Thought to be first instance of three plants are blooming at the same time on North America. First bloom for this plant. 91.5 inches (232 cm) tall.
'Sunshine' bloomed, with a height over 5 feet (1.5 m) tall and a girth of 39 inches (99 cm). Sixth specimen to bloom at the Chicago Botanic Garden, but first to bloom while housed outdoors.
Sixth bloom for the "Velvet Queen." Previously bloomed on June 21, 2008, June 9, 2010, July 1, 2012, July 11, 2014, and June 29, 2016. 2018 inflorescence was 73.75" (187 cm) tall. Spathe was 39" (99 cm) wide. Tuber was 120 lb. (54.4 kg)
Four Corpse Flowers were produced at Huntington in 2018. First one failed to open fully and was dissected for educational purposes. The second one, "Stink", opened on August 16, 2018. "Stank" and "Stunk" opened on August 21, 2018.
First flowering of "Grimace" at 15 years of age. Inflorescence was 80.375 inches tall. Grimace was gifted to Nicholas Conservatory by Huntington Botanical Gardens in 2011 for the grand opening of Nicholas Conservatory.
First bloom of "Phil." Phil and Laura were obtained from two seedlings in 2009. Laura bloomed in 2015. Phil is located between the Hall of Science, and the Molecular and Life Sciences Center buildings at Cal State Long Beach during the day until it blooms.
First ever bloom of the plant in Salzburg and Austria. The plant was a present from Palmengarten, Frankfurt, and was cultivated from May 21, 2019. On June 19, 2019, the flower reached maximum influorescence. The plant stands in the foyer of the Natural Sciences Faculty at University of Salzburg, Austria.
"Laura," one of two corpse flowers at CSULB, is set for an early bloom.... Last blooming in 2015, Laura was not expected to bloom for another 3 years. This rare plant species known as Titan Arum, typically blooms only every 7 to 10 years. Laura and Phil were obtained as seedlings in 2009 for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics by Brian Thorson, Botany Curator and Technician. He tends all plants with great care and Laura and Phil have both responded with blooms accompanied by the famous stench. The first bloom was Laura at seven years in 2015, and then Phil had his first bloom at 10 years just this past month.
First bloom of "Titan VanCoug" at WSU - Vancouver. Titan VanCoug has been raised by Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences Steve Sylvester. He planted a seed from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's titan arum plant, affectionately named Big Bucky, in 2002. A late bloomer at 17, Titan VanCoug's first bloom was most likely delayed because its corm (tuber) cloned itself. While in bloom, it is on display outside the greenhouse at the east end of the Science and Engineering Building.
A corpse flower "Scentennial", named for Huntington's Centennial year celebration, is the tenth such flower at Huntington, opening at 63.75" tall. There have been 10 flowers in 20 years.
A corpse flower "Lupin" named after Harry Potter's Remus Lupin (lupin being wolf in Latin) to honor NC State (whose athletic teams are known as the Wolfpack) bloomed on August 1, 2019.
The plant was a loan from a retired science teacher. The plant was first displayed in a horticulture classroom, then moved to public display once it began to bloom.
The specimen currently at the Conservatory was planted from seed at Cornell University in 2012. The Conservatory collected the plant in 2016, when the University auctioned it off at the International Plant Propagators Society.
Two flowers were in bloom. One flower opened at a new record height of 102" at USBG on September 7, 2020. The second flower bloomed on September 15, 2020, at 107", a new record.
'Thing Two' bloomed from a 42.8 lb (19.4 kg) corm and reached a height of 79" (200.7 cm). This is the third bloom of a corpse flower at Roseville High. Thing Two is one of two corm fragments resulting from the spontaneous fission of 'Tiger' which bloomed in July 2011.
'Hoot' was the first ever Titan Arum to bloom at UWM, in honor of Dr. Sara Hoot, UWM Emeritus. Seed acquired by Thomas Schuck, germinated 1/5/2013, from specimen 'Jesse' (OSU Biological Sciences Greenhouse) and the pollen donor was 'Clive' (Niagara Parks Floral Showhouse, Niagara Falls, Ontario).
Two more flowers were growing at the botanical garden. They were named "Green Boy" and "Stinkie" in honor of Huntington's "The Blue Boy" and "Pinkie" paintings, the 13th and 14th flowers. Green Boy bloomed first on July 20, 2021. Stinkie opened on July 21, 2021.
Huntington's 15th flower was growing. It was placed at The California Science Center to allow people more access. It was named “Darth Vapor,” Lord of the Dank Side. It opened on August 11, 2021, at 2:00 PM
UWM's NWQ Biological Sciences Greenhouse 2nd bloom from seed started in 2013 named 'Remember' as it opened at 8am on Memorial Day, and closed at 9:30am the next day. 'Remember' is the progeny of 'Woody' and 'Jesse'.
One of the Garden's two corpse flowers, Little Stinker, started blooming for the first time since 2016. The flower started to close up and lose its stink earlier than expected on Friday afternoon.
The spadix of "New Reekie" reached a height of 2.43m; This was the fourth bloom on the same corm, which re-bloomed after setting seed on the previous flower.
Second bloom of "Titan VanCoug" at WSU Vancouver. Titan VanCoug has been raised by emeritus Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences Steve Sylvester. He planted a seed from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's titan arum plant, affectionately named Big Bucky, in 2002. A late bloomer at 17, Titan VanCoug's first bloom was most likely delayed because its corm (tuber) cloned itself. This is one of four plants within Titan's pot, the second to bloom. While in bloom, it is on display outside the greenhouse at the east end of the Science and Engineering Building.
The Titan arum bloomed on Tuesday 13 December 2022 at the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden in South Africa in Tropical House 1. It was possibly the first public bloom of the species in southern Africa.
A Titan Arum plant bloomed at Adelaide Botanic Garden after 10 years. This particular plant was propagated from a leaf cutting, in 2013, from an already-established adult Titan Arum. It was the 12th flowering Titan Arum at Adelaide Botanic Garden since 2015. This was the first plant to flower in Adelaide Botanic Garden history which wasn't grown from seed.
Titan VanCoug bloomed for the third time since 2019. The pot, which contains 4 corms, provided viewers with all of Titan arum's life stages: A 9' leaf (the vegetative stage), a 4.5' bloom (the reproductive stage), a 3' infructescence from the 2022 bloom (mature reproductive stage) and a tiny new emergence. It was thought the emergence could be a bloom, but the 4th corm is producing another leaf.
Plant grew from seeds obtained during the 2018 event in the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. At 2.1 m, spadix was tallest ever seen in France to that date.
This is the 22nd amorphophallus titanium plant blooming at Huntington. Named Allan the Amorphophallus titanum, this 21-year old plant started opening up at 59.5" tall on August 27.
The first Appalachian State corpse flower, nicknamed 'Mongo', was received from Atlanta Botanical Garden in 2011. Grown by Jerry Meyer and Chad Wunderlich. 15 years later, Mongo is in its first bloom. Spadix height: 4'2". Spathe width: 2'9". Corm was 18" wide, 30 pounds prior to bloom. Vegetative state: approx 11' tall.
Believed to be the first corpse flower to bloom in a private residence. Tallest flower ever in the state of Michigan. Corm weight 79.5 lbs. Plant age of 6.5 years. Peak height 63.5".
The first of two Amorphophallus titanum to bloom from seeds started on April 16, 2013. These seeds were gifted by Ohio State University as offspring of their own plants. Nicknamed "Dame Judi Stench" by staff.
Third bloom of "Grimace" at 21 years of age. Inflorescence was 71.5 inches tall. Corm was 58.4 lbs when last weighed and repotted on December 22, 2023.
The first recorded bloom of Amorphophallus titanum in the Slovak Republic. The plant grew from seeds obtained in 2018 from another specimen in Liberec to over 2 metres tall.