Odoardo Beccari
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Odoardo Beccari was an Italian botanist famous for his discoveries in Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia. He has been called the greatest botanist to ever study Malesia. The standard author abbrevia
Odoardo Beccari
Beccari in 1910
Malesia, vol. 1, 1877
Amorphophallus titanum
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Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae. It has a large unbranched inflorescence, a tall single leaf branched like a tree, and a heavy tuber which enables th
Odoardo Beccari
…Mount Singgalang, where he amassed a collection of about 1,000 species. He returned to Florence in late December 1878. Among other plants, he discovered Amorphophallus titanum on this voyage. Between 1878 and 1879, Beccari was Director of the Botanical Collections and Garden of the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History…
Amorphophallus titanum 2
Leaf emerging, still tightly furled, nearly 2 m tall
The plant produces a single leaf at a time.
A tuber weighing 117 kg, which produced three inflorescences simultaneously in May 2006 at the Botanic Gardens, Bonn