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World's Largest Flower

Posted by michael on from the garnish-with-baby's-breath dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) produces the world's largest flower and is currently in bud at the University Botanic Gardens Bonn (Germany). As of Thursday, 12 a.m. it is set to break the old world record established in 1932. The old record was 267 cm while the new bud is now 273 cm and still growing."

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  1. What kind of nutrients by Muhammar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I cannot imagine what kind of nutrients in soil can support such a fast-growing monstrosity. Do they have to feed it live sheep?

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    I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it