Country 106.5 WYRK Radio » titan arum http://wyrk.com Today's Country And Your All-Time Favorites Sat, 18 May 2013 17:22:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 See A Big, Stinky Flower In Niagara Falls http://wyrk.com/see-a-big-stinky-flower-for-yourself/ http://wyrk.com/see-a-big-stinky-flower-for-yourself/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 10:00:03 +0000 Dale Mussen http://wyrk.com/?p=84667 It’s something very rare and you have a chance to see one in Niagara Falls, Ontario – the world’s tallest flower.  It’s the Titan Arum and the Niagara Parks Floral Showhouse actually has six of them in various stages of growth.

The first one will bloom within the next couple of days followed by another one a little over a week later.  The bloom lasts only a couple of days.  They look like a lily and weigh in at about 150 pounds each.   They can grow to weigh about 250 pounds.

]]> http://wyrk.com/see-a-big-stinky-flower-for-yourself/feed/ 0 Titan Arum Flower (Getty Images) Largest Flower In The World – Dale's Daily Data http://wyrk.com/largest-flower-in-the-world-dales-daily-data/ http://wyrk.com/largest-flower-in-the-world-dales-daily-data/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:00:17 +0000 Dale Mussen http://wyrk.com/?p=16038 Titan Arum – it’s the largest flower in the world.  It grows only the Sumatra Island of Indonesia.  Its petals grow more than one and a half feet long and one inch thick and the flower weighs 15 pounds

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