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notable as some of their relatives. Among arums, the superstar is clearly the Titan arum (with a great Latin name, Amorphophallus titanum). This is a Sumatran native that produces a putrid-smelling flowering stalk four to six feet tall! Cultivated specimens of this plant rarely flower, but when they do it creates news. One bloomed recently at the U.S. Botanic Garden and attracted thousands of visitors.
Considering how bad they smell it’s hard to understand the attraction people have for these plants, but flowerings of cultivated Titan arums, first viewed at the Royal Botanic Gardens in 1889, are like solar eclipses.
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