Its height is 306 cm from the tuber, 274 cm from the surface of the soil titanum: This was in May 2003 the largest scientifically documented inflorescence of the titan arum, flowering in the Botanic Gardens of the University of Bonn (Germany). titanum derives its name from Ancient Greek ( ἄμορφος amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + φαλλός phallos, " phallus", and Τιτάν Titan, "titan, giant"). Those structures are also called columnar structures or crystals.Ī. The titan arum's berries arrange in a regular cylindrical form that resembles the packing of spheres inside a cylindrical confinement.
titanum is endemic to rainforests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.ĭue to its odor, like that of a rotting corpse, the titan arum is characterized as a carrion flower, and is also known as the corpse flower or corpse plant ( Indonesian: bunga bangkai- bunga means flower, while bangkai can be translated as corpse, cadaver, or carrion). The inflorescence of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, is larger, but it is branched rather than unbranched. It has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. Species epithet 'gigantea' means 'gigantic', a reference to the large flowers of the plant.Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae. Genus epithet 'Staphelia' named by father of modern taxonomy Linnaeus in honour of Dutch botanist and physician Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel (1602-1636), who discovered a related species in South Africa. Propagate by seeds or stem cuttings (let callus form before planting in well-drained media).
Stems tend to rot in waterlogged and moist conditions, can be saved if rotten parts are cut off, and healthy sections allowed to callus for 2-3 weeks before planting. Water plant only when soil is thoroughly dry. Prefers well-drained, loose loamy to sandy-rocky soils. Latest accepted family name is Apocynaceae.ĭry forests and open bushland or savannah areas, establishing under light shade of trees or on flat ground with broken grass cover. Note: Previously placed in Asclepiadaceae family. Scented like rotten animal carcass, attract pollinator carrion-flies and bluebottles, which are sometimes fooled into laying eggs amongst the hairs of the flower.Įxplosive seedpods (follicles), produced in pairs and united at base, resembling goat's horns, containing small flat, tufted seeds that are dispersed by wind. Texture leathery, edged with profuse hairs along margins. Individual open flowers 20-40cm across, star-shaped, very showy, cream-coloured with crimson to brownish transverse lines and deep red central disk. This species produces the largest flowers of all existing succulents in the world. Stems start branching near base of plant to form clumps, rooting whenever they touch the ground. Stems serve as water storage and photosynthetic tissue for plant, green when plant is supplied with sufficient water, turn reddish or brown during drought-stress. Reduced to very small (0.5mm), dry papery remnants at tips of stem tubercles, no longer photosynthetic.įinger-like, fleshy, 4-sided, spineless but ridged with 'teeth' (tubercles), texture somewhat velvety. Cactus-like succulent shrub with shallow root systen, up to 0.3m tall and 1m wide under ideal conditions.
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