"Last Monday, delighted botanists discovered that it had developed a 106 cm flower bud. On Wednesday, when the specimen was put on display to the
public, the bud had reached a height of 125 cm, and it is still growing." see also :
Fairchild Tropical Gardens for more pictures (beautiful!) and this page from
the Botanischer Gardens that will need to be bablefish-ed if you don't read German.