List of publicised titan arum blooms in cultivation

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This list of publicised titan arum blooms in cultivation is a partial listing of flowering events of the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) in cultivation.

Date	Location	Notes	Reference
1889	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	First known flowering in cultivation	[1]
1894	Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia	Titan arum became the symbol of the Indonesian Botanic Gardens	[2]
1901	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew		[3]
1924	Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia		[4]
1926	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew		[5]
1929	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew		[6]
June 28, 1929	Botanical Garden, Hamburg, Germany		[7]
1930	Botanical Garden, Hamburg, Germany		[8]
1932	Botanic Garden of Wageningen, Netherlands	Spadix grew to a height of 2.67 m (8.75 ft) and spathe was 1.5 m (4.92 ft) in diameter	[9]
1934	Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia		[10]
1935	Botanic Garden of Wageningen, Netherlands		[11]
1936	Bern Botanical Garden, Switzerland		[12]
1937	Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany	Spadix grew to a height of 2 m (6 feet). Corm imported from Sumatra by Prof. Koernicke in 1934.	[13]
June/August? 1937	New York Botanical Garden, New York City	Spadix grew to a height of 2.57 m (8.43 ft). Corm weighed 45.36 kg. The titan arum became the "Official Flower of the Bronx".	[14]
July 2, 1939	New York Botanical Garden, New York City	Spadix grew to a height of 1.22 m (4 ft). Corm weighed 14.06 kg.	[15]
1939	Botanical Garden, Berlin, Germany		[16]
July 1940	Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany		[17]
1956	Botanical Garden, Leiden, Netherlands		[18]
1980	Botanical Garden, Munich, Germany		[19]
1985	Palmengarten, Frankfurt, Germany	Spadix grew to a height of 2.49 m (8.17 ft).	[20]
April 27-April 28, 1987	Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany	Spadix grew to a height of 1.63 m (5.35 ft).	[21]
1994	Botanical Garden, Mainz, Germany		[22]
1994	Palmengarten, Frankfurt, Germany		[23]
March 14, 1994	Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia	Same corm also bloomed in 1994 and 2001.	[24]
1995	Botanical Garden, Leiden, Netherlands		[25]
February 15, 1995	Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia	Spadix grew to a height of 1.45 m (4.76 ft) and the spathe was 63 cm (2.07 ft) in diameter.	[26]
May 8-May 11, 1996	Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany		[27]
May 30- June 2, 1996	Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany		[28]
1996	Palmengarten, Frankfurt, Germany		[29]
July 1996	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew		[30]
1997	Land's Plantentuin Buitenzorg, Kebun Raya Bogor, Java, Indonesia	Same corm also bloomed in 1994 and 2001.	[31]
May 1, 1998	University of Missouri, United States	Spadix grew to a height of 0.89 m (2.92 ft).	[32]
May 1-May 3, 1998	Botanical Garden, Bonn, Germany	Spadix grew to a height of 2.34 m (7.68 ft).	[33]
June 24, 1998	Fairchild Tropical Garden, Florida, United States	Spadix grew to a height of 1.51 m (4.95 ft) and spathe was 0.76 m (2.49 ft) in diameter. Also bloomed in May 2001.	[34]
July 6, 1998	Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia, United States	Spadix grew to a height of 1.9 m (6.23 ft).	[35]
May 21, 1999	Marie Selby Botanical Gardens		[36]
Summer 1999	University of Washington, Seattle		[37]
July 7, 1999	Fullerton Arboretum, California State University, Fullerton		[38]
August 1, 1999	The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens		[39]
September 3, 1999	Fairchild Tropical Garden		[40]
July 7, 2000	Botanic Gardens, University of Bonn		[41]
June 12, 2000	Atlanta Botanical Garden		[42]
June 13, 2000	Fullerton Arboretum, California State University, Fullerton		[43]
May 7, 2001	University of Washington, Seattle		[44]
May 15, 2001	Fairchild Tropical Garden		[45]
May 2001	Marie Selby Botanical Gardens		[46]
June 7, 2001	University of Wisconsin-Madison		[47]
2002	Giardino dei Semplici, Florence, Italy		[48]
June 27, 2001	Fairchild Tropical Garden		[49]
May 1, 2002	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew		[50]
May 29, 2002	University of Washington, Seattle		[51]
June 1, 2002	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew		[52]
June 20, 2002	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew		[53]
July 31, 2002	University of Wisconsin-Madison		[54]
August 7, 2002	Huntington Botanical Gardens		[55]
May 12, 2003	Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden	Garden's fifth since 1998	[56]
May 22, 2003	Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany		[57]
May 23, 2003	Fullerton Arboretum, California State University, Fullerton, CA		[58]
June 9, 2003	UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, University of California, Davis		[59]
June 10, 2003	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London	Kew's fourth since April 2002	[60]
July 2, 2003	Le Conservatoire Botanique, Brest		[61] (French)
July 23, 2003	United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC	Garden's second since 2001	[62]
July 12, 2004	Mast Arboretum, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas		[63]
August 4, 2004	Virginia Tech Horticulture Garden, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia		[64]
August 4, 2004	University of Wisconsin-Madison	University's third since 2001	[65]
August 13, 2004	UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, University of California, Davis		[66]
September 2, 2004	Cambridge University Botanic Garden, University of Cambridge		[67]
7 October 2004	Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia		[68]
11 April 2005	Eden Project, St Austell, UK		[69]
21 April 2005	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London	Kew's fifth since April 2002	[70]
May 14, 2005	Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden	Garden's fifth since 1998)	[71]
May 30, 2005	San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers		[72]
June 9, 2005	University of Wisconsin-Madison	University's fourth since 2001	[73]
18 June 2005	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London	Kew's sixth since April 2002	[74]
June 28, 2005	University of Wisconsin-Madison	University's fifth since 2001	[75]
June 29, 2005	Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle	On loan from University of Washington	[76]
June 29, 2005	Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma		[77]
July 14, 2005	University of California Botanical Garden, University of California, Berkeley	On loan from Bill Weaver	[78]
July 14, 2005	Botanic Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden		[79]
August 13, 2005 (est)	The Botanic Garden of Smith College , Northampton, MA		[80]
October 20, 2005	Stuttgart Zoological and Botanic Garden, Wilhelma, Stuttgart, Germany		[81] (German)
November 19, 2005	United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC	Specimen owned by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany	[82]
May 13, 2006	Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany	First titan arum with more than one inflorescence	[83] (German)
June 5, 2006	Fullerton Arboretum, California State University, Fullerton, CA		[84]
August 5, 2006	Virginia Tech Biological Sciences Greenhouse, Blacksburg, VA		[85]
August 7, 2006	Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York		[86]
August 15, 2006	Volunteer Park (Seattle) Conservatory, Seattle, WA	On loan from the University of Washington	[87]
August 21, 2006	Laconia NH Lakeport Fire Station, Laconia, NH		[88]
November 2, 2006	Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia		[89]
February, 2007	Eden Project, Cornwall		[90]
April 22, 2007	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew		[91]
May 3, 2007	Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota		[92]
May 7, 2007	Botanical Conservatory at the University of California, Davis		[93]
May 9-10 (estimate), 2007	University of Connecticut		[94]
July 1, 2007	UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens, North Carolina		[95]
July 2, 2007	United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC	On loan from the Smithsonian Department of Botany Research.	[96]
August 7, 2007	University of California Botanic Garden at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA	Named Titania, after the Shakespearean fairy	[97]
August 14, 2007	Giardino dei Semplici, Florence		[98]
October 4, 2007	Giardino dei Semplici, Florence		[99]

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Titan arum	Closeup of inflorescence	Titan arum cerrada	Titan Arum at Kew Gardens, London, England, in June 2005
Amorphophallus Titanum at Wilhelma, Stuttgart, Germany, at October 20, 2005	Amorphophallus Titanum at Wilhelma, Stuttgart, Germany, at October 20, 2005	Titan Arum at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington D.C., on November 20th, 2005	Open flower at United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC, on 23 November 2005, 4 days after flowering, with the spathe half collapsed
Amorphophallus titanum with 3 flowers, Botanic Garden Bonn, Germany, May, 14th 2006	Detail of Amorphophallus titanum with 3 flowers, Botanic Garden Bonn, Germany, May, 14th 2006	Detail of Amorphophallus titanum with 3 flowers, Botanic Garden Bonn, Germany, May, 14th 2006	Amorphophallus titanum Fairchild Gardens, Miami, "Audrey III", 20 May 2006.