corpse flower

The carcass flower comes from the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. This flower is famous for its unique and large or gigantic shape. There are people who smell the carcass around the house and then look for the origin of the smell. He imagined that the origin of the odor came from a decaying animal carcass. But once in the search, it turns out the smell is from a strange flower. Flower carcasses, Java people call it with the tree Suweg. Actually there are two types of large carcasses that exist in this world. The first is Amorphophallus and the second is Raflessia Arnoldii or also called the Padma Giant flower.

The carcass flower, which is the largest and highest compound plant in the world, includes plants from taro tribes (araceae) with varied shapes and tuber sizes of each species.

The carcass flower (Amorphophallus) undergoes two phases in its life which take place in alternating and continuous, ie vegetative phase and generative phase. In the vegetative phase above the carcass flowers grow single stems and leaves that look like papaya leaves. Until then the stems and leaves to wither remain tubers in the soil.

When conditions permit, the vegetative phase will be followed by a generative phase of the emergence of compound interest that replaces the wilted stems and leaves. These two phases do happen over and over again.

Carrion flower is generally a typical lowland plants that grow in tropical and subtropical climates ranging from the west African region to the Pacific Islands, including in Indonesia. Titan Arum flowers can be found in tropical forest habitat in Sumatra, especially at altitudes between 120 and 365 meters above sea level Wildfowl populations are declining as their natural habitats undergo extensive conversion into agricultural, plantation and settlement areas. Other causes are people who feel threatened by the smell of rotten flowers, then cut the flowers and leaves