Rafflesia Arnoldi

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Most popular rare flowers turned out to have other names namely padma giants. The stench from the giant flower will bloom when going out. It smells rotten, makes lay people mistakenly named the flower as flower carrion.
Like a flower, rafflesia arnoldi growing this widened and not rising. When the flowers are blooming, rafflesia arnoldi can widen up to 1 metre in diameter weighing 10 kg. Grows this ranges between blooms 9 months. Furthermore these flowers will bloom for up to 7 days before eventually wither and die.
This rare plant has two phases that appear in the process of his life Alternately, i.e. vegetative phase and generative.
Vegetative phase, interest on the carcase is also called with the name of the local giant Amorphophallus or krebuit stem. Pseudo stem and the leaves begin to appear in the phase. Carrion flowers can reach a height of about two meters in diameter crowns up to one to five meters.
In fact, the Cibodas botanical garden had stated that a flower blooms in the wreck places it on March 11, 2004 was able to grow up 3.17 meters.
It took over three months in waiting for the growth process of seed to be flowers. If conception during the blooming flower of the carcass, then formed the one red fruit with a few seeds in the former base of the flower.
In the vegetative phase, a set of these seeds can be planted in order to become a tree. Thus, the conservation with WWF has authority in the cultivation of rare plants in Indonesia this

Carrion flowers are usually found in many areas of lowland tropical climates like subtropical & West Africa to the Pacific Islands. One of these is Indonesia.
About 170 species of flowers of bangka have spread to many parts of the world. However, some species are below rated most popular in Indonesia, namely:

Amorphophallus titanum

Amorphophallus oncophyllus

Amorphophallus campanulatus

Amorphophallus gigas

Amorphophallus beccarii

Amorphophallus decussilvae

Befitting a loranthus, flower rafflesia arnoldi growing hitchhike on other plants. Therefore, its Habitat to host plants are interrelated. Now, the population of rafflesia arnoldi experienced shrinkage due to their Habitat was squeezed by an increasingly because over the function of the forest.

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