{"id":2233,"date":"2016-09-05T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T23:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2017-01-25T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:59:17","slug":"time-lapse-video-victoria-lily-flowering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=2233","title":{"rendered":"Time lapse video: Victoria lily flowering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reposted from the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/conservatory\/2016\/09\/05\/time-lapse-video-victoria-lily-flowering\/\">Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/hort\/2016\/09\/05\/time-lapse-video-victoria-lily-flowering\/\">Cornell Horticulture <\/a>blogs. Because I like to share work stuff sometimes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OaqkNzeJV5o\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/conservatory\/files\/2016\/09\/victoria-cu-portrait1090x2400-243pmid.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-355\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-355\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/conservatory\/files\/2016\/09\/victoria-cu-portrait1090x200-28wo9hn.jpg\" alt=\"The bloom begins turning purple the afternoon after opening. Click image for larger view.\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bloom begins turning purple the afternoon after opening. Click image for larger view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It figures. The Victoria lily (<em>Victoria<\/em> x \u2018Longwood Hybrid\u2019) began its dramatic two-day flower display &#8212; its first since being moved to\u00a0the new water feature in the Palm House this summer &#8212; just as the Conservatory was closing for the holiday weekend. Fortunately, we were able to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OaqkNzeJV5o\">capture the event on video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plant was started from seed by horticulture graduate student Miles Schwartz Sax in spring of 2015. It has\u00a0much in common with the Conservatory\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/titanarum.cals.cornell.edu\/\">titan arums (<em>Amorphophallus titanum<\/em>)<\/a>, even though the two species are not at all closely related,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It\u2019s a large plant.<\/strong>\u00a0The cultivar we\u2019re growing is a cross between South American natives\u00a0<em>V. cruziana<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>V. amazonica.<\/em>\u00a0The latter is the larger of the two parents, and under the right conditions it can produce pads nearly 10 feet in diameter. People often photograph\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0D8-nH02TVg\">small children supported by the pads<\/a>\u00a0to demonstrate their strength. (<strong>Obey the signage and do not try it here<\/strong>. It\u2019s dangerous and you\u2019ll injure\u00a0our smaller plant.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The bloom time is short.<\/strong>\u00a0Victoria lilies bloom at dusk and the blooms last only about 48 hours or so.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The flowers use fragrance and heat to attract pollinators<\/strong>. The first evening, the flower is white and releases a pineapple-like scent and generates heat to attract beetles. It\u2019s a lot more pleasant than the foul odor titan arums use to attract pollinators in search of rotting flesh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The flower goes to great lengths to assure cross-pollination.<\/strong>\u00a0During the first evening, the flower\u2019s female parts are ready to receive pollen the beetles might be carrying from another Victoria lily. The flower then closes, trapping the beetles inside.\u00a0 During the next day, the anthers mature and start releasing pollen that the beetles carry from the flower when it opens in the evening. The flower changes to a purplish red, signaling to beetles that their pollination services are no longer needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One important difference: If you missed flowering this time, you won\u2019t need to wait as long to have another chance to view this phenomena in person. Our specimen already has another flower bud poised to\u00a0open soon. Subscribe to our email updates and we\u2019ll let you know when it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/conservatory\/files\/2016\/09\/victoria-cu-landscape1078x2400-2dc2vrx.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-353 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/conservatory\/files\/2016\/09\/victoria-cu-landscape1078x640-1kzyyfc.jpg\" alt=\"victoria-cu-landscape1078x640\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another flower bud to the rear of the bloom is poised to open soon. Click image for larger view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reposted from the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory and Cornell Horticulture blogs. Because I like to share work stuff sometimes. It figures. The Victoria lily (Victoria x \u2018Longwood Hybrid\u2019) began its dramatic two-day flower display &#8212; its first since being moved to\u00a0the new water feature in the Palm House this summer &#8212; just as the Conservatory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=2233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time lapse video: Victoria lily flowering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,56,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tropicals","category-video","category-water-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}