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Perry’s Zenith
Well, it’s been really busy here for the past couple of days, with little time to catch up on the blog. However, one more official day (Sunday) of the Perry Lollapalooza is still to come, and more posts are in waiting and still to materialize. This is a short post on an important milestone in […]
Perry the Corpse Flower – Then and Now
Here’s a brief comparison of Perry’s inflorescence at similar stages of growth in May 2007 and now, complete with scale objects. The human scale from May 2007 is Alex Burum, now probably the second most famous Amorphophallus titanum scale object of all time (first place goes to Hugo de Vries – see below). The current […]
Perry Flowering Status Update
I took a look at Perry at about 4:25 this afternoon, and the spathe shows no sign of unfurling (flapping back of the edge along the seam), even though the parts of the edge at the top seem to have flared out a bit more. At about 8:15 this morning, Perry had a distinct barnyardish […]
Titanic Titillations
Perry the Corpse Flower continues her/his coyness with regard to his/her actual date(s) of opening. Signs of the impending burst of full flowering will be: falling away of the cataphylls at the base of Perry’s now-titanic inflorescence (signifying roughly two days until full flowering), and a heavy surge of purple pigment into the leafy tips […]