Watch the Titan Arum flower on film

Here's the timelapse film of the Titan Arum flowering. The giant specimen of the world's biggest, smelliest flower burst into bloom in August at Eden. The extremely rare Titan arum, known as the corpse flower due to its revolting smell, wowed visitors in the sultry depths of the Malaysia area in Eden's Rainforest Biome - the biggest greenhouse in the world.

Astonishingly, this is the fourth time skilled horticulturist Tim Grigg of the Eden Green Team has nurtured a titan to flower. At a whopping 212cm, it's the second biggest example of the plant he has grown. It lasted two or three days before wilting.

The plant - real name Amorphophallus titanum - hails from Sumatra. Tim Grigg has been growing titans at Eden's Watering Lane nursery for nine years from a batch of seeds donated by Bonn Botanical Garden in Germany.

Oasis playing Eden Project gig

Oasis are to play a special curtain-raiser to their UK tour with an exclusive show at the Eden Project on Saturday September 27.

Oasis’s first ever gig in Cornwall will be filmed for global broadcast by MTV.


Tickets for this event WILL NOT be available through the usual outlets. Instead applicants will have to register online at http://www.oasisinet.com/ to go into a draw for the chance to purchase up to two tickets for this very special concert. Registration opens at midday Friday August 29 until midday Friday September 5.

The Shock of Lightning, the first single from the forthcoming album Dig Out Your Soul, is due to be released two days after their Eden appearance. Their seventh studio album is due out on October 6. Oasis last played the UK in February 2006.

It's a great coup to have Oasis playing here and launching their new album at Eden – Britain’s biggest band of recent times at one of the most spectacular concert venues in the world for a gig that will be broadcast across the planet on MTV.

Oasis have sold nearly 50 million records worldwide. Their second album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? is the third highest selling album of all time in the UK, with more than four million copies sold.

Their third record, Be Here Now, became the fastest-selling album in chart history when it was released in 1997.A Q Magazine/HMV poll of 11,000 people recently ranked Definitely Maybe and (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? as the best two British albums in history.

The announcement of the Oasis show follows Eden’s hugely-successful 2008 Eden Sessions season. Headliners The Verve, The Raconteurs, Kaiser Chiefs, Bill Bailey and KT Tunstall made up what has been acclaimed as the best Sessions line up since the concert series began. Oasis’s biggest-ever UK arena tour starts in Liverpool on October 7. Within an hour of going on sale, more than 180,000 tickets were snapped up by fans for the 18 shows.