Titan Arum, USBG

The titan arum, Amorphophallus titanium bloomed during the night. That makes me a little sad, because I was there yesterday and it didn’t look so ready to bloom, even though the Smithsonian folks put the bloomtime at Saturday –Sunday night. The USBG was open late last night too, and Monkey and I wanted to go, but just never got around to it. They’ll be open late tonight and I can’t go either. I am sad that I won’t get around to seeing it until this coming Saturday afternoon, when it may or may not be spent. We seriously should have more titan arums in the US so that I can get to see at least one. I keep missing them.