Amorphopallus titanum usually grows in the open are relatively oblique and get much sunlight. This flower also grows in loose soil and contains a lot of humus and have good aeration. Manager Cibodas Botanical Garden even puts this rare flower in the back guest house, the location of the most similar to their natural habitat.
Giant corpse flower that is in Cibodas Botanical Garden brought in from Sumatra. In 2000, the exploration team took Cibodas Botanic Garden of Kerinci Seblat National Park, Jambi, at an altitude of 680 meters above sea level and plant it back on June 26, 2000.
"Once these flowers planted behind the greenhouse, but because of the red soil then moved to a location that now. The soil contains more humus," said Makmur, one of the employees who participated Cibodas Botanical Gardens growing Amorphopallus titanum.
Interest which has three phases of this growth - vegetative (leafy), generative (flowering), dormant (resting) - flowering once every four years. Therefore the berbunganya be a special moment that is always eagerly awaited.
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