Stinking giant a hit in Basel

The rare blooming of a giant flower, taller than a man, that stinks of carrion, has been drawing thousands of visitors to Basel University’s botanical garden.

The only previous time a titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) produced a flower in Switzerland was 75 years ago. World-wide, there have only been 134 recorded instances of cultivated plants blooming.

The nearly two-metre tall flower opened on Friday evening. The flower started to poke out of the soil in March, and in the past few days it had been growing at the rate of about six centimetres a day. But before then it had taken 17 years for the corm to grow to 20kg and to reach the blossoming stage. It will start wilting on Saturday evening or Sunday. Its mother plant last bloomed in the Frankfurt Palm Garden in 1992.

The gardens expect some 10,000 people to come to see it and are remaining open for at least 24 hours while the flower lasts. The event is also being filmed on webcam. On Friday, the webcam site was viewed more than 100,000 times.

The titan arum’s distinctive smell, appreciated by the insects that pollinate it, has given it the colloquial name of “corpse flower”.

Native to Sumatra’s tropical rain forest, it requires a humid climate to grow and even in the wild blossoms very infrequently.

Huge though Basel’s flower is, the tallest specimen ever recorded was about three metres high.

Save Bengal and Bengali a call of time

Hello all bengali brother and sister . All uncle, aunt all grand father and grand mother,
all singers,NRI,writer,actor,singer,Politician,educationalist,scientist,researcher everybody who love Bengal,who really love and respect the bengali language . This is the time to get up and save the planet´s most nice and friendly place . Day by day there is os much chaos are happening in Bengal . Bengali´s are becoming more and more away from the bengal . Due to facing hard life with critical situation and fighting for Survival . If I had said something wrong please forgive me . I am apologising as when I see back my childhood it was so happiest moment there.Now those happiness is no more found. We must be united more and work out . We have greater success in whole world now we must be successful in this mission . There are really lots of talented people around the world who are from Bengal,who really loves Bangla . But due to the current sitution not feeling to return back . So we must work now and try to save the place where atleast our next Generation loves to live . See the people of the other Part of the world how much they Love their motherland . Can´t we able to be same as them .

Sometimes I feel that the time will be changed and people will be liked to live there without any kind of hesitation . Only we need to make it more nice and that can be possible by us who really Loves the Bangla and hopes the best for Bangla. I wish to take the opportunity to invite you on this Topic to speak out. How we like to be Bangla ? We can start working for it now I am not asking to start another Political party to form. But really to think for Bangla now . This is WEST BENGAL a place there are lots of Nobel born will we let it to be finish before our eyes . Can´t we do anything for it ????

I have several plan in my mind .

They are like as below . You can put any comments regarding this if I am wrong or right .If you like or dislike ? Please let me know .

I wish the place kolkata & West Bengal will be clean without any Polution . If the other countries can adapt the alternative sources to Protect the environment. Why can´t we?

I wish we have very powerful resource of people . We have experts people in their specific field . We must try to work and give support to others.Much more effecient than other countries.

I wish we must not work by seeing in Political angle . As we must consider same .

I will try to add more wishes regularly in the meantime if you have any idea please don´t hesitate to share . Just put in comments if it is really useful we will publish and let you know .