In the botanical garden of Mount Lofty, South Australia zatsvёl-foot flower amorfofallusa sharp fetid odor. The scent of this huge plant like the smell of rotting flesh. /epochtimes.ru /
Amorphophallus titanum grown in the garden 10 years. This flower is very capricious, and it is very difficult to grow. Furthermore, the plant blooms rarely – once in 10-17 years. Therefore, for employees of a botanical garden of its blossoms it was a real treat.
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Biologists carefully care for plants. They kept him in the cool in summer and warm – winter. In addition to flower artificially created high humidity. Such care flower needed to recreate a specific climate necessary for its existence. A similar climate exists on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where I came from Amorphophallus titanum.
About the upcoming bloom biologists have learned a few weeks ago when they noticed an increase in the size of the flower. Admire the flowering plant will be in two days.
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Employees botanical garden noted that scent of the flower is so offensive, that just knocks feet. However, despite this, the plant comes to admire the many visitors.
«Aroma” for pollinators
Such a sharp unpleasant odor the plant needed for pollination. Amorphophallus pollinated by insects that are attracted to “flavor” of decaying flesh. For more convincing flower is painted in sombre maroon-brown color.
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Insects, attracted by the smell, lay on a flower eggs but the offspring are never hatched, because the flower is not the right conditions. Thus, the Amorphophallus is cheating pollinators, often practiced in nature.
Despite the unpleasant smell, Amorphophallus titanum has a very nice view. It is a tall yellow spadix with splashes of burgundy and green. Under the ground is a giant flower tuber. The botanical gardens plant usually grows to two meters in height, but in nature it can reach more than three meters. It weighs 75 kilograms flower.
konjac
In the Moscow Botanical Garden “Apothecary Garden” also has a plant of the genus Amorphophallus. It grows konjac. In size it is less than the Titanic, but it did not smell weaker. At the same time it continues to bloom for two weeks, although it also happens rarely. Last Konjac in the “Apothecary Garden” blossomed a year ago and has attracted many who want to admire them and photograph rare beautiful plant.
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