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  2. Hydnora africana - Wikipedia

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    The vegetative parts of this plant are more similar in appearance to a fungus than a plant. [7] These plants do not have chlorophyll and do not perform photosynthesis. They obtain their nutrients entirely from a host plant, such as a species of Euphorbia. The plant is composed of thick succulent roots with no stems and the flower develops on ...

  3. Mimicry in plants - Wikipedia

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    Carrion flowers attract flies and other carrion-feeding insects by their smell. [12] Orbea variegata illustrated.. Carrion flowers, including the enormous Amorphophallus titanum, [11] mimic the scent and appearance of rotting flesh to attract necrophagous (carrion-feeding) insects like flesh flies (Sarcophagidae), blowflies (Calliphoridae), house flies and some beetles (e.g., Dermestidae and ...

  4. Carrion flower - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Thermogenic plant - Wikipedia

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    Thermogenic plants are also protogynous, meaning that the female part of the plant matures before the male part of the same plant. This reduces inbreeding considerably, as such a plant can be fertilized only by pollen from a different plant. This is why thermogenic plants release pungent odors to attract pollinating insects.

  6. Decomposition - Wikipedia

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    The decomposition of food, either plant or animal, called spoilage in this context, is an important field of study within food science. Food decomposition can be slowed down by conservation . The spoilage of meat occurs, if the meat is untreated, in a matter of hours or days and results in the meat becoming unappetizing, poisonous or infectious.

  7. Carrion - Wikipedia

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    Not long after the animal has died, its body will begin to exude a foul odor caused by the presence of bacteria and the emission of cadaverine and putrescine. Some plants and fungi smell like decomposing carrion and attract insects that aid in reproduction. Plants that exhibit this behavior are known as carrion flowers.

  8. I Finally Figured Out the ‘Shōgun’ Pheasant Fiasco - AOL

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    Animals experience rigor mortis in the twenty-four hours after they die, which causes a tightening of the muscles that can lead to tougher meat. That’s no bueno.

  9. Phytolith - Wikipedia

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    The plants that were affected by either mosaic virus (carried by aphids) or bacterial wilt disease (carried by cucumber beetles) were infected on their own to replicate natural conditions and all plants were grouped into three categories: healthy plants sprayed to prevent insect herbivory, plants infected with mosaic disease, and plants ...