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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #180 on: June 08, 2015, 04:10:41 PM »
Photo from AlanElliott, showing how Dionysias are beginning to hug the contours of the tufa in the new alpine house

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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #181 on: June 08, 2015, 04:16:21 PM »
nice! do we know which species / hybrid they are - the label just seem to say "Dionysia"? Maybe some farinose D. tapetodes or hybrid there of? Actually looks more like Androsace vandellii to my old eyes.
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #182 on: June 08, 2015, 04:36:51 PM »
nice! do we know which species / hybrid they are - the label just seem to say "Dionysia"? Maybe some farinose D. tapetodes or hybrid there of? Actually looks more like Androsace vandellii to my old eyes.

It has an interesting backstory. It came to the garden as seed of Dionysia confiscated by the Dutch authorities - it has yet to flower. So might be something other than a Dionysia. We'll have to wait and see
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #183 on: June 08, 2015, 05:07:29 PM »
@ Alan, interesting. The other thing they look like is a Draba but I'm sure that's been considered. Interesting also they've got to that size but not flowered yet.
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #184 on: June 08, 2015, 05:16:31 PM »
@ Alan, interesting. The other thing they look like is a Draba but I'm sure that's been considered. Interesting also they've got to that size but not flowered yet.

You'd be surprised what hangs about out of sight and out of mind.....
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #185 on: June 21, 2015, 02:20:06 PM »
Far from being an alpine (!), but I don't see anything on the Forum about the impending flowering of the "world's biggest and smelliest flower" as posted by the RBGE website:

http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/titan-arum

Al - if you see this, do you think tomorrow (Monday) would be a good day to go and see it.  I would like to catch it in full flower.

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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #186 on: June 21, 2015, 02:43:17 PM »
We've been re-Tweeting  and repeating Facebook posts from the Titan Arum in Edinburgh - it's amazing the speed it's been growing at.
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #187 on: June 21, 2015, 03:22:21 PM »
This afternoon's Tweet on the Titan Arum in RBGE

"223.5cm today, posing with Louise for scale! Growth rate is slowing... full bloom soon @TheBotanics #NewReekie  "

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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #188 on: June 21, 2015, 03:47:46 PM »
 and "Cake Fest Edinburgh has a perfect effigy of the plant included on its map!"



Hope the cake tastes better than the flower will smell!!
http://edinburgh.cakefest.org.uk/
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #189 on: June 21, 2015, 03:54:52 PM »
wow on both pics :)

mmm, cake.
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #190 on: June 21, 2015, 07:22:38 PM »
This afternoon's Tweet on the Titan Arum in RBGE

"223.5cm today, posing with Louise for scale! Growth rate is slowing... full bloom soon @TheBotanics #NewReekie  "

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I have no comment to make :-X
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #191 on: June 22, 2015, 10:20:53 PM »
That RBGE Titan almost looks like an albino form.... ::)

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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #192 on: June 27, 2015, 03:22:05 PM »
We've been re-Tweeting  and repeating Facebook posts from the Titan Arum in Edinburgh - it's amazing the speed it's been growing at.
I was out of the country for 2 weeks, so missed it, but today I was determined to be there and to prove it: (but for grandchildren only to view!)
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #193 on: June 27, 2015, 03:29:43 PM »
At 8.45 this morning there were 30-40 people queueing at the gate.  We were greeted by John Mitchell who said the flower opened at 4pm yesterday, and the smell was so strong no one could stay in the greenhouse for too long.  This morning, although the flower was at its peak, there was hardly any smell.  It is expected to last another day. 

A tip for anyone intending to go along: use your body heat well in advance to warm your camera lens otherwise it will fog up the moment you enter the greenhouse.  I should have been wise to this, as I go there frequently and my specs do likewise!  I had to sneak around a second time to get a clear picture.
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Re: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news
« Reply #194 on: June 27, 2015, 03:48:59 PM »
It is a real giant, isn't it?  Thank goodness the pong wasn't too bad.
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