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Titan Arum Seedlings Shared Throughout the U.S.

Sharing seedlings from #CBGAlice and #StinkyDBG of @Botanic with other @PublicGardens. #TitanArum #CorpseFlower

In the past year, more than 181 million people learned about Spike, Alice the Amorphophallus, and Sprout—the Chicago Botanic Garden’s titan arums (Amorphophallus titanum) that entered a bloom cycle—through various media sources. Now even more people may have the chance to learn about the unique corpse flower from seedlings sowed at the Garden that have been shared throughout the United States. It…

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This was a super cool thing to experience #cbgsprout (at Chicago Botanic Garden)

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What's that smell? • • • 🌺 A corpse flower of course! 🌺 • • • FACT! • The corpse flower, known as titan arum, is a flowering plant that, once it blooms, gives off an odor like that of a rotting animal • The titan arum, on average, requires 7-10 years of vegetative growth before blooming for the first time • Once bloomed, the flower generally begins to wilt within 12 hours. However, some have stayed in bloom for up to 48 hours • • • The titan arum, pictured here, is named Sprout and is currently at the Chicago Botanic Gardens @chicagobotanic. It began blooming Tuesday April 26th, and Lukas and I were lucky enough to visit in the evening to view it in all its glory! 😄🌺 #cbgsprout #titanarum #titanarumbloom #corpseflower

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Ooooh-ooh That Smell...

The first visitors to our latest #corpseflower bloom give their impressions of #CBGSprout. #titanarum

#CBGSprout is raising a big stink at the Chicago Botanic Garden! Come see the rare phenomenon of a corpse flower in full bloom or check out the livestream; the Garden is open tonight until 2 a.m. (last entry is 1 a.m.). We chatted with the early birds and met some “regulars”—visitors who had come by to meet Spike, the Garden’s first titan arum on display last August, and Alice, the corpse flower…

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Ten Things to Know About Corpse Flowers

10 things to know about the #corpseflower #titanarum #CBGSprout #titanwatch #stink #gross #science

The Chicago Botanic Garden is on #TitanWatch. That’s right: if you visit the Garden’s Semitropical Greenhouse, you will see Sprout, the latest corpse flower from the Garden’s collection of 13 titan arums to begin a bloom cycle.  Our corpse flowers (Amorphophallus titanum) are now on display in a variety of life stages: in fruit, leaf, and imminent bloom. You might remember Spike and Alice in…

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