Sunday, December 03, 2006

..interesting episode 2

So...."holy little cow of horrors!".....to the "insectivorous".
Here is a little information of the "insectivorous" from Wikipedia………


The largest flower in the world: Rafflesia
Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. It contains 15-19 species (including four incompletely known species as recognized by Meijer 1997), all found in southeastern Asia, on the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and Kalimantan, West Malaysia, and the Philippines (Huh…I didn’t know that it's found in the Philippines too…..). The flowers have no leaves and hardly any stem, just a huge speckled five-petaled flower with a diameter up to 106 cm, and weighing up to 10 kg. Even the smallest species, R. manillana, has 20 cm diameter flowers. The flowers smell like rotting meat (eww…..), hence its local names which translate to "corpse flower" or "meat flower". The vile smell that the flower gives off can sometimes attract flies. It is parasitic on vines in the genus Tetrastigma (Vitaceae), spreading its roots inside the vine. The fruit is eaten by tree shrews and other forest mammals. Rafflesia is an official state flower of Sabah (KK is a city in Sabah) in Malaysia, as well as for the Surat Thani Province, Thailand.

-HL

1 Comments:

At 11:44 PM, Blogger trekkota said...

that's another scary shit!

i sure have never seen that thing over here in the philippines.

so if there's something 'rotten-smelling' ... it's either someone released gas or RAFFLESIA is around.

cool!

-JR

 

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