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Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
The prettiest flowers in the world include rare camellias, expensive roses, common daffodils, elusive orchids, fragrant lilacs, and an exquisite sacred lotus.
The spikes of certain agaves stretch 30 feet high while the amorphophallus titanium, or corpse flower, emits a stench not unlike rotting meat during its rare blooms.
It is one of the rarest plants in the world, being extinct in the wild with all specimens being clones of the type. [2] The specific and common name both honour John Medley Wood, curator of the Durban Botanic Garden and director of the Natal Government Herbarium of South Africa, who discovered the plant in 1895. [3]
Ramonda serbica is one of four plants in the Ramonda (plant) genus. Not to be confused with Ramonda nathaliae, these two flowers differ mainly in the shape and color of leaves, and in durability too. Although they belong to the same family, the only place in the world where these two Ramondas grow next to each other is the vicinity of Niš ...
Rafflesia (/ r ə ˈ f l iː z (i) ə,-ˈ f l iː ʒ (i) ə, r æ-/), [2] or stinking corpse lily, [3] is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. [4] The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants; one species has the largest flower in the world.
Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower, [2] or giant padma, [3] Its local name is Petimum Sikinlili. It is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia within the family Rafflesiaceae. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth. [4] It has a strong and unpleasant odor of decaying flesh. [5]
Because its flower blooms infrequently and only for a short period, it gives off a powerful scent of rotting flesh to attract pollinators. As a consequence, it is characterized as a carrion flower, earning it the names corpse flower or corpse plant. The titan arum was first brought to flower in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in ...