Post by Logan on Apr 21, 2016 17:39:16 GMT -6
There's a new corpse flower in town at Glencoe's Chicago Botanic Garden
First there was Spike, and then there was Alice.
Now, officials at the Chicago Botanic Garden are carefully watching Sprout, the third corpse flower on the verge of blooming at the Glencoe garden in less than a year.
Tim Pollak, the Garden's outdoor floriculturist, said Thursday morning that the 54.5-inch-tall titan arum could bloom anytime between April 22 and 26, and the warm weather expected this weekend could expedite things.
"Sprout is still growing, which is normal," he said. "But it is slowing down, which means it is getting close to going into bloom."
Read more: www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glencoe/news/ct-gln-sprout-corpse-flower-tl-0428-20160421-story.html
First there was Spike, and then there was Alice.
Now, officials at the Chicago Botanic Garden are carefully watching Sprout, the third corpse flower on the verge of blooming at the Glencoe garden in less than a year.
Tim Pollak, the Garden's outdoor floriculturist, said Thursday morning that the 54.5-inch-tall titan arum could bloom anytime between April 22 and 26, and the warm weather expected this weekend could expedite things.
"Sprout is still growing, which is normal," he said. "But it is slowing down, which means it is getting close to going into bloom."
Read more: www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glencoe/news/ct-gln-sprout-corpse-flower-tl-0428-20160421-story.html