It was on March 6. 2016, Trisno Utomo is The Promotion and Documentation Officer at Cibodas Botanical Garden, West Java, Indonesia informed me that the Titan is blooming at midnight. This is the moment I had been waiting for long time since I saw the plant bared its bud several months ago. Then I reacted, rush at early morning to witness the world gigantic flower which was just a half of an hour drive from my house.
The flower has achieved the latest world highest record, measured 3.73 meters high!
A day prior to bloom
During top blooming
Amorphophallus titanum known as the titan arum, is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. Due to its odor, which is like the smell of a rotting animal, 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). This plant is native to Indonesia’s rain forest of Sumatra Island and now has been widely collected by many large Botanic Gardens throughout the world.
In 2003, the tallest bloom in cultivation, some 2.74 m (8 ft 11 in) high, was achieved at the Botanical Garden of the University of Bonn in Germany. The event was acknowledged by Guinness World Record.On 20 October 2005, this record was broken at the botanical and zoological garden Wilhelma in Stuttgart, Germany; the bloom reached a height of 2.94 m (9 ft 6 in). The record was broken again by Louis Ricciardiello, whose specimen measured 3.1 m (10 ft 2.25 in) tall on 18 June 2010, when it was on display at Winnipesaukee Orchids in Gilford, New Hampshire, USA. This event, too, was acknowledged by Guinness World Records. (wikipedia)
The Cibodas Botanic Garden also claimed that the highest record has been achieved by its measured 3.3 m (almost 11 ft).
LOOKING DOWN THE INSIDE OF THE FLOWER
Looking down inside
The pistils
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Pada tanggal 6 Maret 2016, Trisno Utomo, Pejabat Promosi dan Dokumentasi di Kebun Raya Cibodas, Jawa Barat, Indonesia memberitahu saya bahwa Titan akan mekar pada tengah malam dini hari. Ini adalah saat yang saya tunggu tunggu sejak saya melihat tanaman ini memamerkan kuncup bunganya beberapa bulan lalu. Kemudian saya buru-buru di pagi hari untuk menyaksikan bunga raksasa ini yang hanya setengah dari jam perjalanan dari rumah saya.
Bunga ini telah memecahkan rekor dunia tertinggi terbaru, dengan ukuran tinggi 3,73 meter!
Amorphophallus titanum yang dikenal sebagai arum titan, adalah tanaman berbunga dengan perbungaan tunggal terbesar di dunia. Karena bau nya, yang seperti bau hewan membusuk,Arum titan disebut sebagai bunga bangkai, dan juga dikenal sebagai bunga bangkai, atau tanaman bangkai (Indonesia: bunga bangkai – bunga berarti flower, sementara bangkai bisa diterjemahkan sebagai corpse, cadaver, or carrion). Tanaman ini asli hutan hujan Indonesia dari Pulau Sumatera dan sekarang telah banyak dikoleksi oleh banyak Kebun Raya besar di seluruh dunia.
Pada tahun 2003, mekar tertinggi di budidaya, dengan ukuran 2,74 m (8 ft 11 in) tingginya, dicapai di Kebun Raya Universitas Bonn di Jerman. kejadian ini diakui oleh Guinness World Record pada tanggal 20 Oktober 2005, rekor ini kemudian dipecahkan oleh kebun botani dan kebun binatang Wilhelma di Stuttgart, Jerman.; mekar mencapai ketinggian 2,94 m (9 ft 6 in). Rekor itu pecah lagi oleh Louis Ricciardiello, yang berukuran 3,1 m (10 ft 2,25 in) tingginya pada 18 Juni 2010, ketika itu dipamerkan di Winnipesaukee Orchids di Gilford, New Hampshire, Amerika Serikat. Hal ini juga diakui oleh Guinness World Records.
Namun demikian, Kebun Raya Cibodas juga pernah mengklaim bahwa rekor tertinggi yang telah dicapai oleh Cibodas berukuran 3,3 m (hampir 11 kaki).
This is one of the place where I usually hunt the mushrooms
Red Cookiena trycholoma
Cookiena mushrooms squirting the spores out
Edible mushroom found on the moss
Fungi on wood
Beautiful shape of tiny mushrooms
Tiny mushroom in macro shot
Mushroom in the rain
The fungi in macro shot
With the Snail on them
FUNGUS SYNDICATE, Mushrooms Photography
