[OGD] Amorphophallus

2008-01-15 Thread Peter O'Byrne
Hi Gabriele, The plant your friend is hugging in the photo at: http://bp3.blogger.com/_CjrijNLWo6o/R4pjEFUPeFI/B3c/Tp9U8pzjNYw/s1600-h/P1080557.JPG http://waycanguk.blogspot.com/ is indeed an Amorphophallus species and it is one of the bigger ones. Your friend got a bit carried away

[OGD] Amorphophallus titanum webcam address update

2007-04-08 Thread Brian O'Brien
The link that I posted earlier for the Amorphophallus titanum webcam should be replaced with this one: http://www.gustavus.edu/academics/bio/titanarum/. This is a web page for the plant and camera (the original link was for the camera only), and will eventually contain a good bit of informati

[OGD] Amorphophallus titanum - growth underway

2007-04-02 Thread Brian O'Brien
Hello All, This note doesn't involve orchids, but I think that a number of readers of this forum are also interested in other plants of bizarre or unusually interesting nature. We have a large plant of Amorphophallus titanum that has recently initiated a shoot. We don't know, at present,