Update: “Wee Stinky” offspring in the future?
Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo’s Titan Arum, “Morticia,” is currently blooming, but “Wee Stinky” is already well on the path to creating wee “Wee Stinky” plants. Professor Karl J. Niklas, an evolutionary...
View ArticleGrowth Chart for November 13, 2014
Andy Leed and Anja Timm, both of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, see how Wee Stinky measures up on Thursday, November 13, 2014. CUAES greenhouse grower Paul Cooper unearthed a...
View ArticleTalking Titan with Professor Robert Raguso
In part one of two, professor Robert Raguso, chair of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, drops some knowledge about the “behavior” of this giant of the plant world and explains why titan...
View Article‘Raising a Stink’ about Wee Stinky with the Ithaca Journal
The Ithaca Journal has a great piece up today about Wee Stinky. Just one small correction: The Ken Post Laboratory Greenhouses are located at 512 Tower Road, not 114!
View ArticleTalking Titan with Professor Robert Raguso: Part Two
If the titan arum were a job, Mike Rowe would be here to interview it! Professor Robert Raguso continues to talk titan and explains how titan arums–like plants worldwide–get insects to do their dirty...
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