Featured Plant - mid March 2008
Gongora unicolor Schltr.
Featured Plant - early March 2008
Proto-carnivorous Australian Triggerplant in bloom this week
Stylidium graminifolium (Stylidiaceae)
See it on the carnivore table in 2300
Featured Plant - mid April 2008
Spectacular Pineapple Orchid blooming in Alpine Room
Dendrobium densiflorum Wall. ex Lindl.
EEB Greenhouse Featured Plant - July 2008
Another Titan blooms at UConn!!
Greenhouse Horticulturist Dr. Matthew Opel
Tuesday night (July 8th) around 11pm
Greenhouse horticulturist Matt Opel has been posting daily updates to his personal blog at Burgers' Onion where he has been detailing the daily progress along with other interesting information about the Titan. We'll post the daily 'stats' here on the main page, but for a more complete discussion about the bloom's progress, check Matt's blog.
Featured Plant - August 2008
Paphiopedilum Delrosi
primary hybrid of Paph delenatii X Paph rothschildianum
Featured Plant - August 2008
Who let the Dog(banes) out??
Unusual Asclepiads putting on a floral show in the cactus room.
Other currently flowering dogbane family representatives include
Allamanda,
Oleander and
Rose Periwinkle
Featured Plant - October 2008
White Bat Flower in bloom
From the moist forests of penisular Malaysia comes this interesting plant with long white 'whiskers' (filiform bracteoles) which are actually modified leaves - presumably for pollination - See it in greenhouse 2100
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Featured Plant - mid March 2008
Corded Ghost Orchid
Opened for the first time on the Ides of March!!
Dendrophylax funalis (Sw.) Benth. ex Rolfe
Featured Plant - late April 2008
Another new family in the collection to bloom for first time
Orobanche hederae Duby
A root parasite on Hedera that only appears above ground when flowering. A couple of inflorescences were spotted last week. Stay tuned as it develops.
Featured Plant - late May 2008
Eupomatia laurina R. Br.
Primitive magnoliid angiosperm from Australia and New Guinea
Featured Plant - June 2008
Banana in bloom!!
This specimen has been in the collection for decades and although the species has not been identified, we suspect it may be Musa acuminata 'Dwarf Cavendish' or closely related clone.
See it in greenhouse 1100
Featured Plant - early August 2008
Old Man Banksia
Featured Plant - late August 2008
Jensenobotrya lossowiana
Unique fog desert succulent found only on Dolphin's Head on the Namibian coastline.
References include stunning photos of this sparse landscape as well as a link to a very detailed species writeup by Ernst J. van Jaarsveld
Featured Plant - September 2008
Rare Flowering of Agave filifera
Agave's are known as Century Plants due to their reputation of only flowering every 100 years. Many of them do flower very infrequently, but generally don't take 100 years to do so.
To the best of my knowledge this specimen has never before flowered here in the EEB Greenhouses and has been here at least 25 years!! Who knows when it will bloom again?
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Featured Plant - late March 2008
Parrot Pitcher Plant preparing to bloom
Unique 'Lobster Pot' trapping mechanism!
Sarracenia psittacina Michx.
Be sure to follow the Botanical Society of America link for a detailed description of the trapping mechanism.
Featured Plant - early April 2008
Voodoo Lilies stinking up the joint!!
They're running a little late this year...
Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch
Featured Plant - late April 2008
Pitcher Plants going crazy!!
Multiple Sarracenia species in bloom this week
Featured Plant - late July 2008
Aristolochia gigantea in bloom in 1100
Featured Plant - August 2008
Aroid of the Month - Amorphophallus variabilis
First inflorescence fading fast, but a second one emerging (same pot) in Greenhouse 2100
Featured Plant - November 2008
World's Smallest Flowering Plant
in bloom!!
From the same family that brought you the Corpse Flower comes the water meal - a tiny plant barely a 1/16th of an inch long. And that's the full grown plant. Flowers are barely discernable to the naked eye.
Click on the photo for a closer, annotated view...
Featured Plant - October 2008
Copper Passionflower
From the islands of Cuba, Bahamas and Haiti somes this charming little gem. - Flowering sporadically in greenhouse 2100
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