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I am not sure we should list every known bloom since there seem to have been a lot of them. Reading the current page, it seems like the flower has only bloomed 3 or 4 times, which is not true. Also, people keep track of the size of the different blossoms, I have not included that information here.

List of known Titan arum blooms:

http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/05-02archive/k052902.html

More Resources:

I am beginning to wonder whether we should keep the list of flowerings, or move it to another article. It is clear that plenty of specimens are being grown in many botanical gardens (Kew has had 3 flowerings in 2002, 1 in 2003, 3 in 2005 and 2 in 2006 so far - and some of these are not mentioned here yet!). -- ALoan (Talk) 19:05, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

What are the criteria for determing than an external link is a "duplicate"?

Earlier this week, I added the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to the list of known blooms. Later in the week, I also added them to the list of external links at the bottom of the page. I did this because they also have a lot of information about the plant, its history, cultivation, and so on, on their Web site. This is all general information about the plant which will remain valid when the current bloom cycle completes. I also looked at some of the other external links, and the BBG pages on the plant are at least as good as the others.

Another contributor removed the external link I had just added because it was "duplicate." Other duplicates remain on the list. The University of Wisconsin, for example, has two external links listed, in addition to their external link in the list of blooms. On the same grounds, should both external links to U of WI also be removed?

I read the discussion about moving the list of blooms to their own article. I'm in favor of that. It was not so long ago that blooms of Titan Arum were infrequent worldwide. Advances in propagation and cultivation of the plant have increased the number of blooms worldwide. Still, any individual bloom is noteworthy, especially to those who may be within travel distance to see one. For most of us, this is still a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Needs disambiguation

Why isn't there a disambiguation between this and corpse flower. It even says in the article "the same title is also attributed to Rafflesia." Corpse flower and "giant corpse flower" redirect to Rafflesia. There should definitely be an option to pick which one you're looking for, because the causal reader isn't going to know the latin name; they're going to know giant corpse flower, and I'd say chances are good that *this*, not Rafflesia is what they're looking for. Freshyill 15:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I must agree; I've heard corpse flower used to describe both and have gotten very confused as a result. A Max J 23:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

smell

I love how specific the article is on this point; not decomposing flesh, not a decomposing animal, but a decomposing mammal. It seems very silly to me, but I'm reluctant to change it... in case there is a difference :D — riana_dzasta wreak havoc-damage report 16:39, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Two about to happen

link. Perhaps they should be added to the list, or once they actually bloom in any case. Esn 08:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Image

Amorphophallus titanum from The Botanical Magazine (1891)

probably Matilda Smith

I will park this image here, it might be some use. I will try and discover where the artist found source material. Cygnis insignis 12:05, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Repeated article

Hi everyone, I'm sorry because I might have missed some of the guidelines which might be required, please tell me if I forgot any, thanks. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you guys that there are 2 articles which have different titles which talk about the same subject, these two articles are Amorphophallus and Titan arum (which is this article), I think that they should both be joined together into one article.
Thanks,
Cpt Adham (talk) 19:14, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi all, please discard this discussion topic since it has been replied to on the Amorphophallus discussion page,

Thank you, Cpt Adham (talk) 13:15, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


Requested move

Titan arum → Amorphophallus titanum — as per WP:NOTCENSORED — cygnis insignis 12:49, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

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I don't know: What's it usually called? WP:COMMONNAME. 87.114.30.31 (talk) 16:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

A genuine and unambiguous English common name is to be preferred to Neo-Latin; there is a perfectly good Latin Misplaced Pages for the pedantic. Evidence of current usage is in order. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:23, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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