Showing posts with label Unique Plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unique Plants. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Nepenthes (Kantong Semar)


The Nepenthes popularly known as Tropical Pitcher Plants or Monkey Cups. The greatest diversity occurs in Sumatra and Borneo with many endemic species.

The research shown that this plant have a trap that consists of liquid, this liquid can traps the insects and many different species. So, Nepenthes is a predator and its environment as their prey ( examples : ants, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, etc. ). The most uncommon prey for Nepenthes includes rats found in N. rajah.

But in facts, there are some organisms spend at least part of their lives within the pitchers of Nepenthes. For instance, mosquitos larvae lives in Nepenthes, others are fly larvae, spiders, ants, and even a crab.

Rafflesia Arnoldii


Rafflesia Arnoldii grows in Indonesia rainforests, especially in Sumatra and Borneo. This flower is one of the biggest flower (approximately 1.00 metres) and have a reddish-brown coloration and stink of rotting flesh.

It is rare and hardly to locate. Because when the flower as a bud, it is take many months to develop and the flower just bloom in few days. Many are known to be nearing extinction, so nowadays, the flower is taken to be conserve
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