Titan Arum (Corpse Flower) I
July 4, 2007
ƒ/16.0, 1/160 s, 400 ISO
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Back in May, Gustavus Adolphus College had the fortune of having a very rare, very large, and very stinky Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower), named Perry, bloom. It is the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, takes over ten years to bloom, and only lasts about 48 hours. The whole thing was actually a pretty big deal at the college—thousands of people showed up and it even made it to the front page of CNN.com.
I thought that it would be interesting to take some macro photos of such a large flower. This is a shot of the outer brown shell that dried up and fell away when the flower bloomed.
3 Comments
martin_d said
July 5th, 2007 at 3:07 am
damn that looks pretty neat. i’d never have thought this concerns to anything like a flower :D impressive structure.
and.. how the hack did you get so close?
jerry said
July 5th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Wow, that turned out cool. Not many people would bother to take macro shots of some an impressive plant–good thinking! Oh, I believe it’s “titanum” instead of “tatanum.” Just F.Y.I.
Peter Martin Jorgensen said
July 8th, 2007 at 4:12 am
This is macro looks so cool. Great texture the flower has.
It’s funny to see details of a flower everybody else would shoot in “full figure”, to capture the whole thing. Nice and different.
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