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Titan Arum Flower
Titan Arum Flower
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Odd (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 USM
Location: Washington DC, USA
Date: Nov 20, 2005
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Nov 21, 2005

 The Titan Arum flower is the largest-known flower in the world. Aside from it's size, the distinguishing characteristic is that it smells like rotting meat in order to polinate by attracting insects that scavenge dead animals. The US Botanic Garden in Washington DC raised this example from a donated seedling.

Shot RAW, converted for web, sharpened. The extension cord in the background bugs me, but basic editing prevents that. I had to bang off the shot when the botanist pointed at it because including a human element is a good way to establish the outrageous scale of the flower.

Statistics
Place: 119 out of 223
Avg (all users): 4.9598
Avg (commenters): 5.8889
Avg (participants): 4.6962
Avg (non-participants): 5.1034
Views since voting: 3702
Views during voting: 315
Votes: 224
Comments: 20
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/29/2005 06:25:12 PM
Wow, I've seen this before, very rare. Nice shot. Would love to see it with more foliage behind it. Love the colors.
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 11/29/2005 05:46:18 PM
Huge and beutiful bt not very "odd"?
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 11/29/2005 03:55:30 PM
One of the world's oddest. To bad the arm's in it. A narrow dof would have improved it. Good luck on this corpse flower. -6-
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 11/29/2005 03:41:03 PM
Amazing shot! What an ODD capture.
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 11/29/2005 01:12:10 PM
not sure what that plant or flower is. but it really defines ODD hope you do well nice shot!
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 11/29/2005 06:40:33 AM
ah.....is that Mr. Stinky from Tropical Fairchild gardens in Miami?
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 11/28/2005 05:51:53 PM
Wow, i love flowers and would love to see this plant, simply amazing.
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 11/27/2005 01:40:46 PM
That thing is odd.
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 11/26/2005 10:17:30 AM
nice oddity, top of photo's glare/reflection very distracting, otherwise well done
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 11/26/2005 04:42:38 AM
We had similiar but smaller 'creature'. Smell of the blossom was insufferable :)
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 11/23/2005 09:52:03 PM
That thing is amazing. Image the girl who receives this corsage on prom night.
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 11/23/2005 12:59:07 PM
Crazy plant. Good pic except I think it would have been better without the arm and finger pointing. Is this the plant that has a horrible smell?
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 11/23/2005 12:57:52 PM
now thats a flower..!!
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 11/23/2005 11:07:43 AM
Definately an odd flower. Not too sure about the arm.
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 11/23/2005 10:22:02 AM
Is this a "corpse" flower? I have heard about them but not seen one yet.
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 11/23/2005 09:29:11 AM
WOW that is quite odd! Your focus is all on the plant, that's good. But the hand, I don't know about the hand. Maybe if there was not hand it would look better, but I still like the picture. Good Job!
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 11/23/2005 09:19:55 AM
this is very odd
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 11/23/2005 06:49:10 AM
Very Odd! I would have liked this shot better without the hand but I guess it gives it perspective.
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 11/23/2005 05:39:09 AM
should have waited until the hand was gone!!
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 11/22/2005 08:06:29 PM
it'de be much better without the arm in it
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