Wonderful post, Vijayasankar ji.
On 6 May 2014 00:48, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > The plant with the largest inflorescence in the world, Titan Arum > (*Amorphophallus > titanum*), is currently in flowering in our medicinal plant garden at the > University of Mississippi. The flower-bud is now 3-days old and has grown > to over 3 ft tall; at maturity it may reach 7-10 ft high. It may gradually > bloom during the next 2-3 days. In full bloom, it emanates a > characteristic, strong, unpleasant (rotting meat!) odor in order to attract > the pollinator flies. So, it is also known as 'Corpse Flower'. > > This is a rare and threatened plant species, native to Indonesia. The > plant takes more than 5 years to start flowering and it blooms infrequently > (once in 3-5 years). It even more rarely blooms under cultivation. For more > details visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanum > > I will post more pictures when the inflorescence opens fully. > > Regards > > Vijayasankar > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> The whole world uses my Image Resource<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2330 members & 1,87,000 messages on 30/4/14) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia> . Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
