I would request that NYBG put up a regular time video of the spadix collapse. Please start it from just before to just after the collapse. My expectation is this would be less than a minute or two. In time lapse, the progression is so sudden, it cannot be analyzed

Amazing and sad in a way. All that time (ten years at least) and effort to finally bloom for a day and then it's over

@Zanewv

7 жыл бұрын

In sumatra they bloom every 3-4 years. Can't wait for mine to get big enough to flower.

I have a night blooming cirrus. It is similar in its maturing time to bloom. The glorious bloom lasts one night. Divine to see. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you ! It`s impressive ! I was longing for this time lapse video. I suggest adding subtitles of date and time.

At night the water looks like a galaxy.

spectacular!!

Can't believe I just sat and watched that time-lapse... Riveting

oh amazing

Very nice 👌

this so was awesome to see in person. it didn't smell as bad as they made it seem.

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

no worse than a decomposing animal in the woods. However, I would suggest that the principal release of odor occurred overnight, when the garden was closed and that it dissipated before the public's arrival. To me, the odor had notes of cadaverine and putrescine, the unmistakable stench of death!

@ZeacorZeppelin

7 жыл бұрын

+WhatAboutTheBee yeah it smelled like a dead mouse. It was odd, but not like, "oooh god it burns my eyes." I was thinking it was going to be Raffledais, I hope that is how it's spelled. the one that looks like vileplume, the pokemon.

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

+Matthew Cassidy A large animal (like a deer or bear) decomposing in the woods will not "make your eyes burn", even when sampled in close proximity. It simply will trigger the gag reflex, and an observer dependent sense of disgust. What a beautiful demonstration of evolution though. Plants came into being long before insects did. Yet here is a plant that has evolved to attract pollinators by emitting the fragrance of a rotting animal, and does so in a very efficient manner!

@ZeacorZeppelin

7 жыл бұрын

+WhatAboutTheBee I was being facetious about the eyes part. lol

@ZeacorZeppelin

7 жыл бұрын

+WhatAboutTheBee but, it's very interesting how nature finds a way.

I am surprised by the rocking motion of the juvenile specimens of a.Titanium. The motion does not seem phototropic, as the frequency of the motion in the juveniles does not match that of the solar cycle. Perhaps it is a way for the leaf to grow above the undergrowth without getting hung up on it. I remain puzzled

@JamesBu11

7 жыл бұрын

They are dancing

@jamjunky

7 жыл бұрын

I also noticed the nocturnal movement, possibly detecting the camera lighting?

@panzerwolf494

7 жыл бұрын

Or moonlight

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

+Panzer Wolf it cannot be the illumination for cameras because those are fixed and there would be no rocking at all. it cannot be moonlight, because the rocking is several times in one evening, yet the moon passes only once. the frequency of rocking is too high to be the moon.

@MeGaNnIbBeLiNk

6 жыл бұрын

Probably just a change in the turgidity of the cells depending on watering schedule.

2:12 is when it starts to bloom.

Wow, I would've loved to have seen that in person! And I was just there 2 years ago- so close! Is the green tree type thing behind it to the left the actual plant and are they attached? Or does each one either grow a plant or a flower?

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

there are several juvenile specimens of a.titanium behind the flower. Green trunk with lighter spots. the top part is considered to be one leaf, although it appears to be several leaves. A.titanium either grows the leaf or the flower, per single season.

@Petootiepie

7 жыл бұрын

Per single season? You mean it grows the flower but the flower doesn't open?

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

+Petootiepie a.titanum grows either the flower or the leaf in a single season. If the flower is produced, the leaf is not and visa versa. It takes several years of leaf production to store enough energy to produce one year of flower production.

2:22 TOTAL BLOOM

I went to the garden yesterday and missed it 😭

@alansmithee4150

7 жыл бұрын

Oh no! 😟 Sorry hun🌺... I hate when that happens!

The video makes it so obvious why the latin name is amorphophallus titanum! What is in the base of the plant? Is the upright object just one gigantic stamen?

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

the upright part is called the spadix. it is hollow and is used to disperse the fragrance column. it does so by becoming warm! search KZread for an infrared video "FLIR corpse flower"

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

and it is not a stamen at all.

@EricWeis425

7 жыл бұрын

thank you for the explanation. a botanist i am not. on the other hand, i was an expert in IR radiation science for a large part of my career. will be interested to find the video, and then try to figure out which wavelengths were used to detect the flower's "infrared signature". FLIRs can be accurate and can also lead to false interpretations. what biologic mechanism causes the plant tissues to become more thermally active? rather remarkable feat for a plant.

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

+Eric Weis a. titanum's thermogenisis is a fairly modern discovery, the exact details of how it does so are still being investigated. Thermogenetic behavior has been well documented using IR cameras sensitive to 8-13um. In one case, ambient temperature was 27°C and the tip of the spadix was just above 38°C.

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

+WhatAboutTheBee damn you autocorrect!! NOT thermogenetic, thermogenic!

OK, so what happens to the "amorphophallus" part after it goes limp like that? Does it fall off? Does it eventually "rise" again? What?

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

the Spadix (tall central portion) has one function. to act as a heat source in the dispersion of the plume of fragrance. During the bloom cycle, the spadix becomes warm and generates a continuous updraft of air. that updraft carries the odor with it, a remarkably efficient way to disperse it. Once the odor is dispersed, it has no further function. After the spathe wraps around the spadix, the spadix collapses. Assuming native pollinators (or efficient gardeners), the pollination cycle is completed. The spathe and spadix are allowed to atrophy, as the growth of seed begins.

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

to observe an infrared video of a.Titanum in bloom, search KZread for "FLIR corpse flower".

@jimsher9880

7 жыл бұрын

So at some point it rises again rather than just fall off?

2:12 when it finally stars to open

@alansmithee4150

7 жыл бұрын

Lol, thaaank yooou 🙂 Nature put the poor thing on pause for a while there 🌺

Of course in all this is there any talk of the FUNCTION? Don't flowers open so they can be pollinated? . . .

@WhatAboutTheBee

7 жыл бұрын

Pollination is a sequence of events. When the spathe opens, the spadix produces heat (!) which distributes a powerful fragrance column up into the atmosphere. The fragrance column has the odor of rotting flesh. Pollinators are drawn to the odor and to the base of the spadix, where they encounter the female portion of a. titanum. A few hours later, as the odor dies away, the female portion is not receptive and the flower then produces male pollen. In this way, the flower is mostly not self pollinating, although some cases of self pollination have been documented. In cultivation, a window is cut into the base of the spathe, and a gardener will apply pollen at the appropriate time.

between 2:06 to 2:07 wtf!!!!

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