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Mememe
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Shame they smell soo much.....
(I'm talking about the huge ones, like titan arum, you need a greenhouse for 'em.)
http://www.infoscarnivores.com/kew/photos/titan_arum1.jpg
(you can get then, but they are V expensive, hard to grow, and sometimes need to be shipped from indo. - just for seeds!
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| Mememe wrote: | Shame they smell soo much.....
(I'm talking about the huge ones, like titan arum, you need a greenhouse for 'em.)
http://www.infoscarnivores.com/kew/photos/titan_arum1.jpg
(you can get then, but they are V expensive, hard to grow, and sometimes need to be shipped from indo. - just for seeds! |
Sounds like a lot of effort for a plant that produces flowers once in a lifetime that smell of decaying flesh. I will stick with me common ones ta muchly. I believe Kew Gardens had some success with Giant Arums in their tropical house.
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Their's flowered last year I believe. EDIT- I've just had a look on their website and it flowered on 4th May 2006. I would like to smell it though, just out of curiousity really. One of the keepers at Kew said it smelt like rotting rats - so I suppose we all know what it smells like...lol.
Re the Christmas cactus - just place the bag over the top of it. It doesn't matter if some of the cactus is exposed.
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Mememe
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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I live right near Kew Gardens, god it smelled- went to see it.
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| Jackie wrote: | Their's flowered last year I believe. EDIT- I've just had a look on their webiste and it flowered on 4th May 2006. I would like to smell it though, just out of curiousity really. One of the keepers at Kew said it smelt like rotting rats - so I suppose we all know what it smells like...lol.
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I will let you know how I get on with it Jackie. The Arum did flower last year at Kew, I remember seeing it on the Kew Garden series on the TV. Rotting rats nice.
Lucky you living near Kew Tom! perhaps you could get me a cutting from the giant Arum
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