The you see in the picture is the biggest flower in the world, and also the smelliest. Is about a meter wide and was discovered in a tropical rainforest in Sumatra in 1818, but was not described precisely as a beautiful plant because of the unpleasant smell that follows, similar to rotten meat A team of scientists Americans have used genetic analysis to solve the mystery of the lineage of the flower called Rafflesia, known for its corolla of a meter wide and its foul smell, and according to results published in the journal 'Science' is a plant that comes from an old family known for its flowers, but not great, but tiny. In fact, many of its 'raw' botanical flowers are a few millimeters in diameter.
Asta has been established that the Rafflesia belongs to the spurge family, which also includes the poinsettia, the Irish camponulas, the rubber tree, the castor oil plant and cassava according to the researchers. The rare Rafflesia characteristics of intrigue for decades botanists throughout the world who wanted to find out where you fit this strange plant in the botanical tree of life, especially out the evolution of this plant parasitic that steals nutrients from another plant while deceiving insects that pollinate it.
The plant lives in the midst of tropical creepers, where only the flower is visible. Lacks leaves, shoots and roots, and does not employ photosynthesis, the process that plants use to harness energy from sunlight.
The flower, red or orange, red can weigh seven kilos and is capable of emitting heat, probably mimicking that of a freshly killed animal to entice the carrion flies that pollinate it. The flower was first discovered in 1818 on an expedition to Sumatra by Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of the British colony of Singapore, and Joseph Arnold, who died of malaria in the expedition. Since then specimens have been found in the forests of parts of southeast Asia, although in Borneo is where they found a greater number of flowers.
The world's largest flower stinks A young German watches in awe, the biggest attraction of the spring botany in Germany: the Giant Aro, flower world's largest, known for its Latin name that reveals their characteristics, Amorphophallus titanum. The ring giant flourishes these days in the Bonn Botanic Garden and arouses admiration for his impressive height of 2 meters 74 centimeters, but also for its stench. Not surprisingly, in Sumatra, from where the ring giant, called The Corpse Flower . The role of the rotten smell is to attract insects that act as agents of reproduction. Its flowering is an event because it only does 3 or 4 times in 40 years. The bad smell to attract followers among humans does not always work.
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