Differences Rafflesia Flower arnoldii and carcass

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Rafflesia Flower arnoldii and carcass (Amorphpophallus titanium) are two different types of plants. Although the public sometimes both types are treated the same plant even mixed together. I myself had heard an elementary school teacher said in front of his students that the carcass is the Rafflesia flower.

Indeed Flower Rafflesia and carcass (Suweg Giants) both have large sizes (giant) and produced a foul odor. But Raflesia and the relationship between carcass (Amorphpophallus titanium) have differences in biological classification, shape, color, way of life, and life cycle.

Rafflesia

Rafflesia arnoldii

Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic plants flower. He was found in the Indonesian rain forest by a guide from Indonesia who works for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Thomas Stamford Raffles, leader of the expedition. It consists of approximately 27 species (including four that have not been fully characterized known as recognized by Meijer 1997), all species found in Southeast Asia, the Malayan peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, and the Philippines. This plant has no stems, leaves or true roots.

Rafflesia is a endoparasit the vines of the genus Tetrastigma (family Vitaceae), spreading the roots haustoriumnya similar in the network's vines. The only part of Rafflesia plant that can be seen outside of its host plants are crowned with five flowers. In some species, such as the Rafflesia arnoldii, diameter of flowers may be more than 100 cm, and weighs up to 10 kg. Even the smallest species, Rafflesia manillana, 20 cm diameter flowers. Rafflesia is a lot of people are known arnoldii Rafflesia species. This type of forest only grows in the southern part of Sumatra, especially Bengkulu.

The main characteristic that distinguishes Rafflesia flowers lay dead in the form of widening (not high) and red. When blooming, the flowers can reach a diameter of about 1 meter high and 50 cm. Rafflesia flower has no roots, stems, or leaves. The flowers have 5 crowns. At the bottom of the barrel-shaped flowers have stamens or pistils, depending on the sex of flowers. the existence of the pistil and stamens are not in one house to the percentage of assisted fertilization by insects fly very low, because not two different flowers growing in sex at the same time the nearby places. This rate of growth period takes up to 9 months, but the flowering period is only 5-7 days. After that Rafflesia will wither and die.

Until now Rafflesia never bred successfully outside their natural habitat and if the host tree roots or dead, Raflesia will die. Raflesia therefore require primary forest habitat to survive.

Little information, during the year 200 plants of the genus Rafflesiaceae difficult to be classified as characteristics of the body that are not public. Based on the DNA research by botanical experts at Harvard University recently, Rafflesia incorporated into the family Euphorbiaceae, a family with rubber trees and cassava. But this is still not well published.

Several types of Rafflesia (in Indonesia); Rafflesia arnoldii (endemic in West Sumatra, Bengkulu and Aceh), R. borneensis (Borneo), R. cilliata (East Kalimantan), R. horsfilldii (Java), R.patma (Nusa Kambangan and Pangandaran), R. rochussenii (West Java), and R. contleyi (eastern part of Sumatra).

Scientific classification: Kingdom: Plantae; Division: Magnoliophyta; Class: Magnoliopsida; Order: Malpighiales; Family: Rafflesiaceae; Genus: Rafflesia;

Titan arum

Rafflesia addition, another giant flower known to the public is a dead flower / suweg giant Titan Arum (Amorphpophallus titanium). This type of endemic species only grows in the forest area in Sumatra.

Interest-bangkaiBerbeda the Rafflesia, titan arum corpse flower is creamy on the outside and on the rising. While red crown to the purple. Brief current form looks like a flower blooming trumpet. If the Rafflesia is only widening, flowers grow towering dead. Carrion flower height Amorphophallus titanium species can reach about 4 m with a diameter of about 1.5 m.

Titan arum is the plant of the tribe, including taro-talasan (Araceae). Is a plant with compound interest in the world's largest. Unlike the Rafflesia can not grow in other areas, carrion flower cultivation can be. when the parasitic Rafflesia in vines and flowers growing on a dead bulb itself.

These flowers have 2 phases in his life which appear alternately and continuously, ie vegetative and generative phase. In the vegetative phase, in the tubers will emerge a single stem and leaves similar to glimpse papaya trees. Tall tree could reach 6 m. After a few years, generative organs will shrink unless the tuber. If the environment supports, and the tuber is eligible trees will be replaced with a dead flower growing. The growth of compound interest that replaces the withered tree is the generative phase of this plant.

New flowers can grow when the tuber has a minimum weight of 4 kg. When the food reserves in the tubers less or have not weighed 4 pounds, then the tree will wither replaced by new trees.

In addition, carcass flower is a plant and settle protogini, where the female flowers receptive first, then followed by male flowers cooking, as a mechanism to prevent self pollination. Stench issued by this flower, such as the Rafflesia, serves to attract beetles and flies pollinators for flowers. After the flowering period (approximately 7 days) passed, dead flowers will wilt. And going back through the cycle, return to the vegetative phase, where new trees will grow over the dead flower bulbs used.

When flowering occurs during fertilization, the fruit will form red-colored fruit with seeds on the former base of the flower. These seeds can be planted a tree in the vegetative phase. These seeds are now cultivated.

Scientific classification: Kingdom: Plantae; Division: Magnoliophyta; Class: Liliopsida; Order: Alismatales; Family: Araceae; Genus: Amorphophallus; Species: A. titanum;
Binomial name: Amorphophallus titanum (Becc.) Becc. ex Arcang

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