5 Endangered Plants in Endangered Indonesia

 1. Carrion Flower

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 The carcass is a giant flower that is very unique because it can produce a foul smell like a carcass. The stench is actually intended to invite the beetles and flies to land and help the process of pollination. These flowers grow high soaring up to reach 4 meters. When blooming, the exterior is creamy white while the crown is a deep purplish red. This flower will only bloom for 7 days until then die or grow back.
Flower carcass flowering in a long span of time, can be about 5 years. The native habitat of this flower is in the forests of Sumatra. It will still have many preserved in other areas such as in Forest Park Ir. Djuanda, Bandung. 

 

2. Rafflesia Arnoldii

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 Padma Giant or Rafflesia Arnoldii is also a gigantic flower that emits a foul odor when it blooms. Because they both emit a bad smell, sometimes many people mistakenly call this flower as a carcass flower. Rafflesia Arnoldii grows wider to the side and not rising like a carcass. When the flowers bloom, its diameter can reach 1 meter weighing up to 10 kilograms. The period of growing up to bloom is about 9 months. This flower will only bloom for 7 days before then wither and die. Rafflesia Arnoldii flowers live in other plants. Therefore, the habitat is highly dependent on the presence of host plants. Currently this flower population is shrinking due to the increasingly narrow habitat due to the conversion of the forest into agricultural areas, settlements, or mining.

 3. Sandalwood

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 Sandalwood is one of the trees that has many uses in Indonesia. Sandalwood can be used as material for making incense, perfume, aroma therapy, spices, to bayonet bayon (warangka). It is said that the fragrance of sandalwood can last for hundreds of years.

 4. Semar bag

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 Semar bag is a very unique plant because it can prey on various nearby insects such as flies, bees, and others. This carnivorous plant is quite rare so it should be cultivated so as not to quickly become extinct.  Semar bag itself can only prey on insects when he was an adult. He will open his pockets to get insects into it. If there is already trapped, then the pouch will be closed immediately to start digesting the insect.

5. Orchid Sugar Cane 

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 Sugar cane is the largest and most severe orchid family. One grove of mature cane orchid can weigh more than 1 ton with a starting length of up to 3 meters. Because of its enormous size, this flower is often referred to as a giant orchid. This flower has a yellow color with a combination of brown spots, red, and blackish red. This flower is very unique because although the trunk has been cut, but the flowers can still last up to 2 months. These cane orchid flowers are so rare that they belong to protected plants.
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