Urginea maritima - largest flower bulb?

Gary Meltzer tropicalsea3@gmail.com
Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:55:09 PDT
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Nan Sterman
<TalkingPoints@plantsoup.com>wrote:

> Anyone want to venture an opinion on whether Urginea maritima is the
> world's largest flower bulb?
>

If you include tubers or corms as part of the "bulbs" as some would have
it, Amorphophallus titanum dwarts Urginea maritima.  See
http://kew.org/ucm/groups/… for
the story of their 91 kg/ 200 pound plant when it was repotted in 1994.

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