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…the wine produced by the decendants of the plants discoverer – Odoardo Beccari. The ‘Titanum’ wine produced by the Beccari family, whose ancestor, Odoardo, discovered the titan arum. After graduating…
This is a film of when our Amorphophallus titanum grew a leaf back in 2011. https://youtu.be/2hJwzkf5cpU…
…to how we can help our plant, fondly called New Reekie,… Amorphophallus titanum – Preserving it for posterity The flowering of our Amorphophallus titanum (titan arum) was a tremendous event…
…reflect their specialised means of attracting pollinators. In fact, the Indonesian name of the titan arum “bunga bangkai” actually translates as corpse flower. The titan arum supercharges its smell at…
…sensitive sense of smell. Arisaema is another carrion flower in the same family as titan arum. This specialisation in the pollination of titan arum has inspired us to carry out…
Tip of the titan arum flower bud showing the emergence of the yellow spadix (15th June). Being the largest flower head is one of the titan arum’s claims to fame….
…Image: copyright SRUC. Titan arum at 7pm on 26th June showing a more open spathe and cooler surrounding vegetation. Image: copyright SRUC. Titan arum at 10.32pm on 26th June showing…
A small army of staff and volunteers, dubbed the ‘Titan Arum Army’, is sweltering alongside New Reekie to help explain this extraordinary tropical plant to visitors. However, heat is a…
…sweet-flag (Acorus), skunk-cabbage (Lysichiton), bog arum (Calla) and dragon arum (Dracunculus). Dragon arum (Dracunculus). Image: P. Pickaert. Bog arum (Calla). Image: Borealis55. Sweet-flag (Acorus). Image: Christian Fischer. Skunk-cabbage (Lysichiton) photographed…
…an animal dies. Bodies can be reduced to clean skeletons in a matter of days in some cases. The trick successfully pulled off by the titan arum, and other ‘corpse…
New Reekie at its peak The flowering of our Amorphophallus titanum (titan arum) was a tremendous event with c 19,000 people visiting the Glasshouses to see the plant growing from…
Arum maculatum – Lords and ladies – was collected for the Darwin Tree of Life project by Dr Maarten Christenhusz (Royal Botanic Garden Kew) on the 27th April 2021, on…
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! Our Amorphophallus titanum (titan arum), one of the world’s biggest and smelliest blooms, is now in full flower. It’s a first for…
…which was attracted by the foul scent of the Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) that flowered again in the glasshouses in June 2019 (overnight, 23rd/24th). June’s other new Garden beetle record…
…insect (the phasmid Phyllium bioculatum, illustrated above) that, for about a year-and-a-half in the mid-1850s, proved to be as much of an RBGE ‘visitor attraction’ as the Titan Arum (Amorphophallus…
…Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop with RBGE’s very own Vlasta Jamnicky and her marvellous cakey titan arum The completed cake map, being admired by the crowds before they all started gobbling…
https://twitter.com/whinchliffe/status/616522382296096768/photo/1 It’s been very exciting the last couple of weeks with the long awaited Titan Arum flowering in the Glasshouses. However for myself it has also been an exciting wait…
…and the famous titan arum. Jimmy’s article also details the expeditions of the Garden’s most famous and prolific collector, George Forrest, and the acquisition of diverse collections at Benmore and…
…our Amorphophallus titanum (titan arum) that flowered for the first time in Scotland in 2015; You can read more about this plant here Chilean TerraceNext: Previous: Montane Tropics House …
…the soil to keep hydrated. June was the month when, after many years of waiting the Amorphophallus titanum flowered. The first time the Titan Arum had flowered in Scotland and…