The monster arum, shrunk 25 times to fit the page

Fig. 80. Giant Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) greatly reduced

Amorphophallus titanum, Odoardo Beccari, 1889 (public domain)

Amorphophallus titanum, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine pl. 7153, 1891 (public domain)

Stone and Starlight

Fig. 80. Giant Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) greatly reduced
Cooke's woodcut: a six-foot spadix, reduced twenty-five times
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Amorphophallus titanum, Odoardo Beccari, 1889 (public domain)
Beccari's own 1889 plate of his Sumatran giant in bloom
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Amorphophallus titanum, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine pl. 7153, 1891 (public domain)
The same species, painted for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1891
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Its hedgerow cousin, the wake-robin, at everyday scale
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The monster arum, shrunk 25 times to fit the page

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