Padma giant ( Rafflesia Arnoldii) is an obligate parasitic pant knowing for having very large flower, event is the biggest flower in the world. He grow up in a network of vines (lianas) tetrastigma and do not have leaves that can not photosynthesize. Naming the giant flower apart by the history of discovery is not the first time 1818 in the tropical forest of Bengkulu ( Sumatra) somewhere near the river Manna , Lubuk , South Bengkulu. Bengkulu known the world as the land of Rfflesia of earth.
A guide who works at Dr. Joseph Arnold who discover the first giant flower. Dr. Joseph Arnold itself when it is participating in the expedition led by Thomas Stamford Raffles. So naming flower Rafflesia Arnoldii is based combination of the names of Thomas Stamford Raffles as an expedition leader and Dr. Joseph Arnold as the inventor of interest. This plant is endemic plant of Sumatera island especially the southern art ( Bengkulu, Jambi, and South Sumatera).
Kerinci Seblat National Park is an area of major conservation of is species. This type, together with the other members of genus Rafflesia, threatened status due to devastating devorestation. In java patma grow only one type of parasite , Rafflesia patma.
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