Amorphophile, especially Titanophile,
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Amorphophallus titanum in Hill Garden, Hanoverbeen announced now the somewhat enjoyable message to the Hill Garden of Hannover...
In the Hill Garden in Hanover, there may be a flower bud in one of titanum that still hold, but the curator wants to not go yet to the public, because it seems to be still unsure and he also wants to see whether it really is a flower.
What the Hanoverian still somewhat reluctant, is the slow development of the bud.
But it could be the temperature in the greenhouse be owed, which is not as high as in Bonn.
As well as always – here a few pics:
The arrangement looks, the gardener in the Middle show house built up; the Pfllanzen are a large heating mat (temperature 28 ° C).
In the middle of the presumed flower bud
here a close up - what from this perspective not so good looking is the asymmetrical shape of the bud, but that it is bulbous than a leaf bud, is quite good.
on the right side, two stand maxwellii; I also have this clone with the almost white petiole patterning
the petiole of the large titanum left in the arrangement; left of a gigas, which I once; gave the Hill Garden by the way the same clone / genotype, which some here in the Forumn I bought...
two titanum leaf buds in the arrangement; on the left, you can see even begin that the petiole buds are much slimmer than the Blütneknospen...
two times titanum and gigas in the background...
right of titanum bud, you can see a Pseudodracontium sheet (possibly fallax); if I remember rightly but I look again soon, if it's so true...
So, I think that the thick titanum bud on all cases of a flower bud is and hope that well still growing despite the slow development.
I will report more...
Happy reading, Bernhard.