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Please note: This page was created in June 2003 for the blooming of "Ted". This was the first blooming of an Amorphophallus titanum at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory. Another will bloom in early August 2004. Please click here to learn more about this second blooming.
Monday, June 9, 2003 -- At about 1 p.m. today, the giant flower at UC Davis started to bloom (see our June 6 news release at<http://www-pubcomm.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=6454>).
The 4-foot-tall flower is blooming sooner than expected, so predicting its activity is difficult. The bloom had been expected to last only 24 to 36 hours and to emit its strong scent for about eight hours. Those times may prove accurate or the bloom may progress more rapidly than that.
Amorphophallus titanum, also known as Titan Arum or the Corpse Flower because of its smell, takes up to 15 years to bloom and rarely does so in cultivation.
The UC Davis plant, nicknamed "Ted the Titan," is on public display on the campus daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. until the bloom collapses.
