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Leaping Leaf – Perry the Corpse Flower Surges Again
The cycle is well under way – Perry the Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) is once again growing a titanic leaf. I wrote about the awakening last month, and the photo in this post introduces a new face on the blog, Tran Tuan, the latest Gustavus student Perry scale object in what is becoming a substantial […]
A Towering Tiny Titanic Forest
I posted in June on germination of seeds of Perry the Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum). Further germination has occurred, and the last count of seedlings from the tray pictured is 59 (and there are more in the set of seeds being tended by Philip). The seedlings have been outside in my back yard for about […]
Arb Sightings 7/27/11
High temperatures in the 80’s with lower humidity levels have amounted to a week of rather comfortable weather for those of us in southern Minnesota. A couple early mornings of rain (today and last Saturday) amounted to a cumulative total of just under an inch of rain here in St. Peter, but otherwise there has […]
Arb Sightings 7/20/11
Anyone who has stepped outside in the past three days in southern Minnesota knows how intensely uncomfortable the heat indexes (heat + humidity, what it actually feels like to us) have been, although some might not realize that they are historically uncomfortable as well; yesterday, many of us in the southern half of the state […]
Arb Sightings 7/13/11
A stormy and rainy start to the week (dropping near one inch of rain in St. Peter) has given way to a midweek cool down, as today high temperatures are comfortably in the 70’s accompanied by relatively low humidity levels here in southern Minnesota. But all this is about to change as a warm front […]
Arb Sightings 7/8/11
June turned out to be quite the unsettled month. A few days of sunshine were often followed by a streak of stormy/rainy weather, with severe thunderstorms appearing throughout the entire state on several occasions. Heavy rainfall occurred around the middle of June in southern Minnesota, with around ten inches (most of which reached the Minnesota […]
Titanic One-Eyed Organism Opens Eye
Perry the Corpse Flower, Amorphophallus titanum, has survived his/her seed production cycle, and is growing again. As of today, July 5, 2011, the shoot is about two inches high. We expect this growth to be a leaf, and its unfurling should be a fascinating event. Click here for the final blog post of the last […]
A Tiny Titanic Forest!
The Children of the Corm (aka the progeny of Perry the Corpse Flower) continue to appear. Their numbers grow steadily, as one after another after another after another of Perry’s self-generated seeds germinate. Can total domination of humanity by our new Vegetable Titan Overlords be far behind? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, the germinations continue… […]
Arb Sightings 5/27/11
A bit more unsettled than last week, this week has given us days of rain, sun, clouds, wind, thunderstorms, and even cold temperatures! This afternoon it is raining steadily here in St. Peter, but today’s precipitation should let up later this afternoon/evening before more returns sometime tomorrow afternoon. There is a chance of storms both […]
Arb Sightings 5/20/11
Our 5-day string of beautiful (and comfortable) mid-May weather has come to an abrupt end as steady showers blanketed southern Minnesota this morning. Tomorrow’s forecast calls for thunderstorms that will likely bring more rain to the area (remember, we never got back down below river flood stage), and we might see spotty showers through next […]