Corpse Flower Blooms 'Chanel' at UC Santa Barbara

The corpse flower at UC Santa Barbara, Chanel, flourished and spread a stench on the campus, the university said.   Flower is Titan Arum comes from the tropical forests of Sumatra, Indonesia. "It is a rare event in the culture increasingly rare in its native Sumatra, raged when the deforestation of rain forests on its habitat," said UCSB biology greenhouse responsible Danica Taber. Titan Arum has been in the news in July when it bloomed at the U.S. Botanic Garden, where it has attracted beetles and many people with its foul smell. The flower spreads its smell by increasing the temperature of the burning of carbohydrates. These stored carbohydrates are changed into a network of underground storage. The whole process requires a lot of energy, so the flowers grow is rare. The activity of Chanel at UC Santa Barbara, has been captured by an infrared camera. The pictures showed his core temperature rises, the body heat close. Temperatures began to rise Tuesday night and reached its peak on Wednesday morning. "The data from this series of photographs will help us to understand how Titan Arum uses thermal energy to attract pollinators," Taber said. Chanel is designed to have sprinkled on Chanel and female flowers a mother as soon as the staff at UCSB biology greenhouse pollen corpse flower (named Mortimer) in Washington, DC, when it flowers. The fertilized female flowers are now in olive-sized bright orange-red fruits to develop half a meter long cylindrical in the cluster. Inside the fruit are seeds that require a lot of time and patience to Titan Arum. It takes about five to seven years for the descendants of Chanel to bloom. "The seed Chanel Mortimer and products of their union cross-continent conservation efforts of this strange plant, more majestic and threatened" Taber said in a press release