Botanical Quiz

[Loddfafner]

Sure is. Which leads me to my next question....how do you people know this stuff off-hand?

Some plants are not easily forgotten. Like this one:

[Loki]

Titan arum, the corpse flower.

[Aemma]

White Pitcher Plant - Sarracenia leucophylla

It grows in the moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine savannas along the United States Gulf Coast generally west of the Apalachicola River on the Florida Panhandle.

I spent way too much time trying to get that name for a quiz that I will have zero future success in.

LOL! Oh I can empathise Soten. You should have seen the time I put in to last night's botanical question. Dear gods! LOL!

You did well though so chin up my man!

[Loddfafner]

Titan arum, the corpse flower.

Correct, though missing its borderline obscene scientific name. It is a major news item whenever one of these blooms in captivity, which is not often. I saw one in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden a few years ago. It did not reek as bad as reputed, and what smell there was could have come from the nearby concession stand.

[Loki]

Correct, though missing its borderline obscene scientific name. It is a major news item whenever one of these blooms in captivity, which is not often. I saw one in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden a few years ago. It did not reek as bad as reputed, and what smell there was could have come from the nearby concession stand.

Amorphophallus titanum, indeed.

[Electronic God-Man]

Where does this Corpse Flower grow?

I think we should try to stick with English name/Latin name/places where it grows. That way we can all learn...or at least try to.

[Loki]

What is this?

[Loddfafner]

Where does this Corpse Flower grow?

I think we should try to stick with English name/Latin name/places where it grows. That way we can all learn...or at least try to.

It is native to Sumatra. It is the world's largest flower if you don't look too closely and see that it is actually a gigantic flower spike covered in zillions of tiny flowers.

[Loddfafner]

What is this?

Is it an orchid from the genus masdevallia from the highlands of South America?

[Loki]

Is it an orchid from the genus masdevallia from the highlands of South America?

It is an orchid, but not from that genus and not from that continent either. Granted it looks a lot like a masdevallia.