From Cornell’s Albert R. Mann Library News:
Have you seen the spectacular, rare Titan Arum plant (Amorphophallus titanium) now blooming in the Cornell School of Integrative Plant Science’s botanical collection? The very first time a Titan Arum bloomed as a cultivated greenhouse plant was 125 years ago, in the famed Kew Botanical Gardens of London. A fabulous account of that historic bloom appeared in the 1891 issue of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, a copy of which is housed in Mann Library’s special collections vault. We put a spotlight on this work in celebration of Cornell’s own blooming Titan.