‘CorpseFlower’ Category
Perry the Corpse Flower is blooming!
Just in time for Halloween, Perry the Corpse Flower is blooming. If you can’t make it over to the green house in Nobel Hall you can watch it all unfold live here: gustavus.edu/perry/
3 Year Time Lapse Video of Perry
Ever since we first heard about the possibility of a Titan Arum ( corpse flower a.k.a Amorphophallus titanum) blooming in the greenhouse we have been saving photos of Perry and documenting the growth. Now that Perry has bloomed again I thought it was about time to create a time lapse video showing the amazing changes […]
Corpse Flower Link Roundup
Here is a list of resources available for all you Perry the corpse flower fans out there. http://gustavus.edu/biology/titanarum/ This is the main launching point for all your corpse flower needs including webcam images updated every minute and Brian O’Brien’s blog posts about Perry. http://news.blog.gustavus.edu/2010/07/06/rare-corpse-flower-set-to-bloom-again-at-gustavus/ This page has lots of information for anyone planning on coming […]
Live Video of Corpse Flower
Now that Perry the Titan Arum ( Corpse Flower ) is getting ready to bloom again, we have installed a new camera in the green house to stream live video to anyone who wishes to watch it. If the live video stream is not quite what you are looking for, we also have a webcam […]
Time-lapse of Ice Rink Replacement
Ice Rink Time-lapse This is a time-lapse video of the Don Roberts ice rink going from the final stages of the 2008 Nobel Conference to the newly repaired ice rink. Earlier this year the cooling system failed and had to be replaced. In this video you can see the removal of the old cooling system […]
May 14th added to Perry time lapse video
I have updated the time lapse videos to include images from May 15. In the latest video you can see that Perry is slowly shrinking and now the spadex is really showing the signs of all the hard work it did over the weekend. I assume that it will not be too long before it […]
Corpse Flower Time Lapse – May 12th and 13th.
Here are the latest time lapse videos of Perry blooming on May 12th and beginning to fade on May 13th. Camera 1, also on youtube Camera 2, also on youtube Camera 3, also on youtube If anyone is interested in full resolution ( 1280×1024 ) less compressed time lapse video, let me know or feel […]
Time lapse of corpse flower blooming
A quick update on Perry the Titan. I have a new time lapse video of the images taken today. Camera 1 also available on youtube. Camera 2 also available on youtube. Camera 3 also available on youtube. Click on the thumbnails above to view thermal images of Perry.
Perry, the Gustavus Corpse Flower is Blooming
Earlier this afternoon Perry, the Gustavus Adolphus College Corpse Flower began blooming. If you really want to get a good whiff of it you should try to come by sometime in the next 24 hours. If you can’t make it in person, you can watch the live video. So far our web server is handling […]
Thursday Updates on Perry the Gustavus Corpse Flower
One of the good indications that Perry is getting really close to blooming is that on Wednesday at 1:00pm the bracts fell off. By looking at other Titan Arums it seems like the bracts fall about 2 or 3 days before it blooms. If you are interested, we happened to catch the event with our […]