List of publicised titan arum blooms in cultivation

This list of publicized titan arum blooms in cultivation is a partial listing of flowering events of the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) in cultivation.

Date Location Notes Reference
1889 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew First known flowering in cultivation
1894 Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia Titan arum became the symbol of the Indonesian Botanic Gardens
1901 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
1924 Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia
1926 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
1929 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
June 28, 1929 Botanical Garden, Hamburg, Germany
1930 Botanical Garden, Hamburg, Germany
1932 Botanic Garden of Wageningen, Netherlands Spadix grew to a height of 2.67 m (8.75 ft) and spathe was 1.5 m (4.92 ft) in diameter
1934 Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia
1935 Botanic Garden of Wageningen, Netherlands
1935 Bergianska trädgården, Stockholm, Sweden First bloom in Sweden. Bloom of a 29 kilogram plant, acquired from Sumatra in 1932. Bloom reached 1.55 meter.
1936 Bern Botanical Garden, Switzerland
1937 Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany Spadix grew to a height of 2 m (6 ft). Corm imported from Sumatra by Prof. Koernicke in 1934.
June/August? 1937 New York Botanical Garden, New York City Spadix grew to a height of 2.57 m (8.43 ft). Corm weighed 45.36 kg. The titan arum became the "Official Flower of the Bronx".
July 2, 1939 New York Botanical Garden, New York City Spadix grew to a height of 1.22 m (4 ft). Corm weighed 14.06 kg.
1939 Botanical Garden, Berlin, Germany
July 1940 Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany
1956 Botanical Garden, Leiden, Netherlands
1980 Botanical Garden, Munich, Germany
1985 Palmengarten, Frankfurt, Germany Spadix grew to a height of 2.49 m (8.17 ft).
April 27–28, 1987 Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany Spadix grew to a height of 1.63 m (5.35 ft).
1994 Botanical Garden, Mainz, Germany
1994 Palmengarten, Frankfurt, Germany
March 14, 1994 Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia Same corm also bloomed in 1994 and 2001.
1995 Botanical Garden, Leiden, Netherlands
February 15, 1995 Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia Spadix grew to a height of 1.45 m (4.76 ft) and the spathe was 63 cm (2.07 ft) in diameter.
May 8–11, 1996 Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany
May 30 – June 2, 1996 Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany
1996 Palmengarten, Frankfurt, Germany
July 1996 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
1997 Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia Same corm also bloomed in 1994 and 2001.
May 1, 1998 University of Missouri-St. Louis, United States 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.
May 1–3, 1998 Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany Spadix grew to a height of 2.34 m (7.68 ft).
June 24, 1998 Fairchild Tropical Garden, Florida, United States Spadix grew to a height of 1.51 m (4.95 ft) and spathe was 0.76 m (2.49 ft) in diameter. Also bloomed in May 2001.
July 6, 1998 Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia, United States Spadix grew to a height of 1.9 m (6.23 ft).
May 21, 1999 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Summer 1999 University of Washington, Seattle
July 7, 1999 Fullerton Arboretum, California State University, Fullerton
August 1, 1999 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
September 3, 1999 Fairchild Tropical Garden
July 7, 2000 Botanic Gardens, University of Bonn
June 12, 2000 Atlanta Botanical Garden
June 13, 2000 Fullerton Arboretum, California State University, Fullerton
May 7, 2001 University of Washington, Seattle
May 15, 2001 Fairchild Tropical Garden
May 2001 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
June 7, 2001 University of Wisconsin–Madison
June 20, 2001 University of Missouri-St. Louis, United States 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.
June 27, 2001 Fairchild Tropical Garden
2002 Giardino dei Semplici, Florence, Italy it:Giardino dei Semplici
May 1, 2002 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
May 29, 2002 University of Washington, Seattle
June 1, 2002 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
June 20, 2002 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
July 31, 2002 University of Wisconsin–Madison
August 7, 2002 Huntington Botanical Gardens
Mid-August, 2002 University of California-Santa Barbara Only bloom from specimen "Tiny." Received from University of Connecticut in 1995.
May 12, 2003 Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Garden's fifth since 1998
May 22, 2003 Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany
May 23, 2003 Fullerton Arboretum, California State University, Fullerton
June 9, 2003 UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, University of California, Davis
June 10, 2003 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Kew's fourth since April 2002
July 2, 2003 Le Conservatoire Botanique, Brest (French)
July 23, 2003 United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC Garden's second since 2001
July 6, 2004 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT The first Titan bloom at UConn.
July 12, 2004 Mast Arboretum, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
August 4, 2004 Virginia Tech Horticulture Garden, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
August 4, 2004 University of Wisconsin–Madison University's third since 2001
August 13, 2004 UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, University of California, Davis
September 2, 2004 Cambridge University Botanic Garden, University of Cambridge
7 October 2004 Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia
11 April 2005 Eden Project, St Austell, UK
21 April 2005 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Kew's fifth since April 2002
May 14, 2005 Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Garden's fifth since 1998
May 30, 2005 San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
June 9, 2005 University of Wisconsin–Madison University's fourth since 2001
18 June 2005 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Kew's sixth since April 2002
June 28, 2005 University of Wisconsin–Madison University's fifth since 2001
June 29, 2005 Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle On loan from University of Washington
June 29, 2005 Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 14, 2005 University of California Botanical Garden, University of California, Berkeley On loan from Bill Weaver
July 14, 2005 Botanic Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden Second bloom in Sweden, first bloom in the Botanic Garden in Gothenburg.
August 13, 2005 (est) The Botanic Garden of Smith College, Northampton, MA
October 20, 2005 Stuttgart Zoological and Botanic Garden, Wilhelma, Stuttgart, Germany (German)
November 19, 2005 United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC Specimen owned by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
May 13, 2006 Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany First titan arum with more than one inflorescence (German)
June 5, 2006 Fullerton Arboretum, California State University, Fullerton
August 5, 2006 Virginia Tech Biological Sciences Greenhouse, Blacksburg, VA
August 7, 2006 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York
August 15, 2006 Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle, WA On loan from the University of Washington
August 21, 2006 Laconia NH Lakeport Fire Station, Laconia, NH
November 2, 2006 Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia
February, 2007 Eden Project, Cornwall
April 22, 2007 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
May 3, 2007 Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minnesota
May 7, 2007 Botanical Conservatory at the University of California, Davis
May 12, 2007 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT This was this specimen's second bloom.
June 1, 2007 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT This was the first bloom for this specimen.
July 1, 2007 UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens, Charlotte, North Carolina
July 2, 2007 United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC On loan from the Smithsonian Department of Botany Research.
July 23, 2007 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland, OH This was the first bloom for this specimen, named Cronus, obtained in 1994 from the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
August 7, 2007 University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley, CA Named Titania, after the Shakespearean fairy
August 14, 2007 Giardino dei Semplici, Florence
October 4, 2007 Giardino dei Semplici, Florence

April 10, 2008 Como Park Conservatory, St. Paul, MN Plant called "Bob" had a bloom of ~2' in height.

June 21, 2008 Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois First Titan Arum bloom in Illinois

July 8, 2008 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 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.

July 20, 2008 The Botanic Garden of Smith College, Northampton, MA
July 28, 2008 Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle On loan from University of Washington
August 5, 2008 National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise, Belgium Named Jean-Pol, de knol. Spadix grew to a height of 1.56 m.
September 6, 2008 National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise, Belgium Named Hercule, le tubercule. Spadix grew to a height of 1.9 m.
November 10, 2008 Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The first bloom for the specimen, named Neilson.
May 1, 2009 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Two plants were in bloom. See photos below.
June 7, 2009 University of Missouri–St. Louis First bloom for the specimen, after 14 years of dormant cultivation. Grown in the University of Missouri/St. Louis greenhouse by Kathy Pickett Upton.
June 17, 2009 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
June 22, 2009 University of California Botanical Garden, University of California, Berkeley Trudy
June 28, 2009 Le Conservatoire Botanique, Brest Second bloom of this specimen (French)
October 28, 2009 Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin
15 January 2010 Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
March 1, 2010 Nathanael Greene Park, Friends of the Garden, Springfield, Missouri 'Audrey' 35 lb tuber. Current height 4 feet 5 inches with a 27.5 inch girth.

May 2, 2010 Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
May 15, 2010 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland, OH This was the second bloom for this specimen, named Cronus, obtained in 1994 from the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
June 4, 2010 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Second bloom at The Huntington Library in a row.
June 9, 2010 Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL Second bloom for this specimen
June 10, 2010 Horticultural Gardens, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
June 22, 2010 UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens, Charlotte, North Carolina Second bloom of this specimen.
June 29, 2010 University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley, CA Maladora
July 11–12, 2010 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA First flowering for a 15-year-old plant
July 22–24, 2010 Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX First bloom, "Lois"
July 24–25, 2010 Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minnesota Second bloom; "Perry"
December 17, 2010 Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil First bloom; first time ever in South America
September 14–16, 2010 Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York First bloom; "Metis". Spadix grew to 67.5 inches tall. Grown from seed acquired in Bali in 2005.
September 21, 2010 University of Wisconsin–Madison University's sixth since 2001
October 11, 2010 University of Wisconsin–River Falls University's first since seed acquired in 2001
January 25, 2011 Flecker Botanic Gardens, Cairns, Queensland, Australia First for 2011
March 15, 2011 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Third bloom, second of this tubercule since 2008, height 235 cm
April 22, 2011 Botanical Garden of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
April 23, 2011 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio The first Titan Arum grown from seed to bloom in Ohio
April 24, 2011 Pana'ewa Rainforest Zoo, Hilo, Hawaiʻi Plant from private collection, on loan for public display
May 12, 2011 University of Missouri–St. Louis 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.
May 18, 2011 Bergianska trädgården, Stockholm, Sweden 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.
May 19, 2011 University of Missouri–St. Louis 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.
June 3. 2011 Eden Project, Cornwall Tuberous offset from a specimen that flowered in 2005. Tuber weighed 120 kg and reached a height of 2.91M.
June 8. 2011 Eden Project, Cornwall 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.
June 8. 2011 University of Washington, Seattle Second bloom from a specimen that started as a seed in 1995, flowered in 2003 and then went dormant as a 50-pound tuber.
June 12, 2011 University of Missouri–St. Louis 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.
June 16, 2011 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Corm #5, 159 cm
June 23, 2011 Botanical Conservatory at the University of California, Davis
June 28, 2011 Como Park Conservatory, St. Paul, MN 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.

July 4, 2011 Murdough Greenhouse, Biology Dept, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH This 10-year-old specimen bloomed for the first time. Bloom was 70" tall, Nicknamed Morphy. Second bloom September 23, 2016.
July 15, 2011 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 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.
March 18, 2012 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY "Wee Stinky" flowered to a height of 1.68M.
May 4, 2012 Niagara Parks, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada This specimen, named "Morph" bloomed around 6pm May 4, 2012. It reached 2.41M in height. This is the first bloom reported in Canada.
May 14, 2012 Niagara Parks, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada This specimen was named "Clive". It was expected to bloom around May 14 but no confirmation found. Pollen from "Clive" was donated to The Ohio State University to pollinate a bloom named "Jesse" later in May.
May 19, 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis, Missouri 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.
May 25, 2012 The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 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.
June 6, 2012 Eden Project, Cornwall Dubbed "007" as it was the 7th bloom at the Eden Project and it was 7 years old. Tuber weighed 35 kg and reached a height of 2.57M.
June 9, 2012 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens First bloom since 2005.
June 14, 2012 Moody Gardens, Galveston, Texas Only fourth instance of a Titan arum blooming in the U.S. state of Texas. Named "Morticia".
June 16, 2012 University of Connecticut Corm #3, 2nd bloom for this specimen - 128 cm
June 19, 2012 Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, Massachusetts First blooming at the zoo. Also named "Morticia." Blossom lasted less than 24 hours.
June 19, 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis, Missouri A month after the first flowering of a Titan Arum at the Missouri Botanical Garden a second plant flowered.
June 21, 2012 University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark First bloom in Denmark. Specimen donated by the Botanical Garden in Bonn in 2003.
July 1, 2012 Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL Third bloom for the "Velvet Queen." First bloomed on June 21, 2008, then again on June 9, 2010. 2012 inflorescence was 47.25" tall. Tuber was 33 lb.
November 19, 2012 Botanical Garden of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Second bloom of this specimen
December 25, 2012 Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia First bloom of this specimen
December 27, 2012 Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil Second bloom of this specimen
4 January 2013 Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia Second plant not on public display ,
April 9, 2013 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States.
April 21, 2013 Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
May 14, 2013 The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Second bloom of specimen "Woody" reached 72.5" tall. Tuber weight 49 lbs.
May 24, 2013 The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 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.
June 19, 2013 California State University Chico, Chico, California
June 20–21, 2013 Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York Second bloom; "Metis".
June 21, 2013 Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany Bloom reached 2.90 meters. (German)
July 10, 2013 Bergianska trädgården, Stockholm, Sweden Third bloom at Bergianska, fourth in Sweden. First bloom of 18-year-old "Crius", a specimen from Jim Symon's seeds. Bloom reached 1.94 meters. (Swedish)
July 13, 2013 University of Connecticut First inflorescence for 'Maximus'. Flower unfortunately aborted without opening fully, perhaps due to lighting issues.
July 21, 2013 United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC First bloom for specimen.
July 30, 2013 University of California-Santa Barbara First bloom for specimen "Chanel." From 2002 cross of UCSB "Tiny" x Huntington Botanical Gardens.
August 1, 2013 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin Plant was named "Dennis."
August 8, 2013 Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 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.

August 19, 2013 University of Wisconsin–River Falls Second bloom.
October 31, 2013 Gustavus Adolphus College Plant named Perry, bloomed for the third time.
December 1, 2013 Domain Wintergardens, Auckland First bloom in New Zealand.
May 13, 2014 University of Mississippi, School of Pharmacy First recorded bloom of 2014.
June 11, 2014 University of Mississippi, School of Pharmacy Second bloom at the Maynard W. Quimby Medicinal Plant Garden.
June 24, 2014 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California, OCC Horticulture Garden "Little John"
June 29, 2014 Jardin des plantes de Nantes, France (French)
July 11, 2014 Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 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.
July 11, 2014 University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark Second bloom in Denmark from same specimen as in 2012. The flowerstalk reached a height 192 cm.
July 16, 2014 Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany First bloom in Hannover.
August 8, 2014 Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, Buffalo, New York
September 28, 2014 Botanical Garden of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Third bloom since 2011. Tuber weighed 45 kg and reached a height of 2.55M.
November 19, 2014 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Currently flowering at a height of 76".
January 5, 2015 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 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.
14 March 2015 Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia Second flowering of tuber that flowered 4 January 2013
7 April 2015 Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Second flowering of tuber that flowered 21 April 2013
20 April 2015 Rollins College Hauck Greenhouse, Winter Park, Florida First flowering since its planting in 1993
May 31, 2015 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada First flowering of 'Magnus'. Flower had a height of 1.82 metres.
26 June 2015 Paignton Zoo, England
27 June 2015 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland The spadix has reached a height of 2.55m.
9-10 July 2015 Botanical Garden of the Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium First flowering of 'Aaron'
15 July 2015 Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, Belmont, NC 'Morphius' grew to 50". It was the first bloom ever for the 17 year old plant.
17 July 2015 University of North Carolina - Charlotte 64" bloom on 'Odie'. It was cross-pollinated with Morphius, also in bloom in the Charlotte area.
18 July 2015 Cambridge University Botanic Garden, University of Cambridge Nicknamed 'Tiny Titan', the flowering was unexpected as the corm was under the minimum flowering weight of 15 kg.
July, 2015 Eden Project, Cornwall Flowered in July 2015
25 July 2015 University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley Trudy
25 July 2015 Jindai Botanical Gardens, Japan This titum grew to 6'5" according to the BBC and other sources.
Aug 18, 2015 Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado, USA Bloom opened up in the middle of the night on August 17, 2015 [1]
Aug 28-29, 2015 Virginia Tech Horticulture Greenhouses, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia "Stinky Phil" bloomed overnight Aug 28-29, 2015
Sept 29-30, 2015 Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago, Illinois, USA "Alice the Amorphophallus" bloomed September 29-30, 2015[2]
Dec 28, 2015 Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia "Indah" bloomed December 28, 2015 [3]
Feb 1, 2016 Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia "Ganteng" bloomed February 1, 2016. [4][5]
April 26, 2016 Chicago Botanical Garden, Chicago, IL "Sprout" started blooming overnight between Monday, April 25 and Tuesday, April 26, 2016. [6]
May 1, 2016 The Eden Project, St Austell, Cornwall, United Kingdom Two plants bloomed simultaneously during the night of May 1, 2016
May 5, 2016 Rollins College, Florida, USA bloomed simultaneously with a voodoo lily in the same greenhouse [7]
May 26, 2016 Botanical Garden, Munich, Germany
June 29, 2016 Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 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.
July 19, 2016 Periya Gurukula Botanical Garden, Kerala, India First bloom in India
July 28, 2016 New York Botanical Garden, New York City
July 30, 2016 Jordan Hall greenhouse at Indiana University "Wally" blooms for the first time
August 1, 2016 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida "Audrey" starts blooming
August 1, 2016 United States Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC ,
August 6, 2016 Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado, USA "Little Stinker" starts blooming
September 9, 2016 University of Wisconsin–River Falls Third bloom. Did not open completely, fullest extent reached roughly 1 a.m., 53" height.
September 22, 2016 North Carolina State University "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
September 23, 2016 Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH Second Bloom

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References

  1. ↑ Turkewitz, Julie (2015-08-21). "Thousands Stop to Smell a Flower (and Hope Not to Gag)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
  2. ↑ "Titan Arum | Chicago Botanic Garden". www.chicagobotanic.org. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  3. ↑ "Titan Arum | Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens". http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/botanicgardens/Home. Retrieved 2015-12-28. External link in |website= (help)
  4. ↑ "Thousands queue for whiff of Adelaide 'corpse flower'". ABC News. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
  5. ↑ "Botanic Gardens SA on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
  6. ↑ Dorfman, Daniel I. (April 26, 2016). "Sprout the corpse flower finally blooms, starts stinking". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Rollins College corpse plant blooms overnight".

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