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Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae.It has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The inflorescence of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, is larger, but it is branched rather than unbranched.
One such plant is the Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), which has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence. Rather than a single flower, the titan arum presents an inflorescence or compound flower composed of a spadix or stalk of small and anatomically reduced male and female flowers, surrounded by a spathe that resembles a single giant ...
Myosotis (/ ˌ m aɪ ə ˈ s oʊ t ɪ s / MY-ə-SOH-tiss [3]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. The name comes from the Ancient Greek μυοσωτίς "mouse's ear", which the foliage is thought to resemble. [4] In the Northern Hemisphere, they are colloquially known as forget-me-nots or scorpion grasses.
In Tibetan Buddhism, the practice of excarnation—that is, the exposure of dead human bodies to carrion birds and/or other scavenging animals—is the distinctive characteristic of sky burial, which involves the dismemberment of human cadavers of whom the remains are fed to vultures, and traditionally the main funerary rite (alongside ...
The first European to find Rafflesia was the ill-fated French explorer Louis Auguste Deschamps.He was a member of a French scientific expedition to Asia and the Pacific, detained by the Dutch for three years on the Indonesian island of Java, where, in 1797, he collected a specimen, which was probably what is now known as R. patma.
In fallen dead parts of plants (plant litter), this process is largely carried out by saprophagous (detritivorous) soil invertebrate fauna, [51] [52] whereas in standing parts of plants, primarily parasitic life-forms such as parasitic plants (e.g. mistletoes), insects (e.g. aphids) and fungi (e.g. polypores) play a major role in breaking down ...
Drosera, which is commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. [2] These members of the family Droseraceae [1] lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces.
The plants are hardy herbaceous perennials with narrow tufted radical leaves and an elongated stem bearing a handsome spike of white or yellow flowers. Asphodelus albus and A. fistulosus have white flowers and grow from 45 to 60 centimetres ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –2 ft) high; A. ramosus is a larger plant, the large white flowers of which have a ...