{"id":27978,"date":"2024-11-14T05:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27978"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:19:36","slug":"amorphophallus-titanum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/amorphophallus-titanum\/","title":{"rendered":"Amorphophallus Titanum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Amorphophallus Titanum:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Amorphophallus Titanum (called Titan Arum in short) blooms <strong>once in a decade<\/strong> and is one of the largest in the world \u2014 growing over 10 ft in height.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also called Corpse<strong> Flower.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was first described by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari in 1878.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It blooms approximately once every decade, with each flowering lasting merely 24 to 48 hours.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>mimics the stench of rotting flesh<\/strong> to attract its pollinators \u2014 carnivorous bees and flies that feed on corpses.<\/li>\n<li>The dark, red interior of the spathe that is exposed when it is fully open looks like the surface of a piece of uncooked meat, and the spadix in the centre even warms up to provide the perfect simulation of a warm, abandoned body.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It looks peculiar, with a tall, crooked, <strong>pale yellowish phallic structure<\/strong> \u2014 the \u2018spadix\u2019 \u2014 rising from the centre of what looks like an upturned meat skirt \u2014 its dark red, thick, waxy \u2018spathe\u2019, which is the spiral, petal-like structure that holds within it the inflorescence.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> It <strong>blossoms on limestone hills<\/strong> in the rainforests of <strong>western Sumatra, Indonesia<\/strong>, where it is called bunga bangkai (bunga means flower and bangkai means corpse).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Endangered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Pollination?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the act of transferring pollen grains from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma. The goal of every living organism, including plants, is to create offspring for the next generation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/giant-flower-that-smells-of-dead-bodies-blooms-in-australia-what-we-know-about-the-rare-species\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giant flower that smells of dead bodies blooms in Australia. What we know about the rare species<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amorphophallus Titanum blooms once in a decade and is one of the largest in the world \u2014 growing over 10 ft in height. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}