AKHIRNYA....TEMUKAN BUNGA BANGKAI DI HUTAN SUMATERA. SETELAH 20 TAHUN MEMBURUNYA !

SUMATRAN FORESTS ARE THE NATURAL HABITAT OF THE CORPSE FLOWER (AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANUM) AND THE RAFFLESIA ARNOLDI. AROUND KOTOTINGGI, REGENCY 50 KOTA IS THE PLACE FOR THE CORPSE FLOWER. THIS FLOWER IS THE LARGEST FLOWER IN THE WORLD. ITS HEIGHT CAN REACH MORE THAN 3 METRES. ITS PETALS ARE 1.5 METRES WIDE. IT GROWS ON HARD-TO-REACH SLOPS. THE AROMA IT EMITS IS SIMILAR TO THE AROMA OF A CORPSE, BUT NOT AS SHARP. THIS FLOWER BLOOMS ONLY ONCE IN 4 YEARS. AFTER ONE WEEK OF BLOOMING, THIS FLOWER WITHERS AND IS REPLACED BY A STEM SIMILAR TO PORANG, BUT ALSO GIANT IN SIZE. THIS STEM CONTINUES TO GROW FOR 4 YEARS. IN THE FOURTH YEAR, THIS STEM ROTS AND IS REPLACED BY THIS GIANT FLOWER. THE PROCESS FROM FLOWER TO BLOOMING IS FIFTEEN DAYS. THEN THIS FLOWER WITHERS AND IS REPLACED BY ANOTHER TREE. THIS CONTINUES TO REPEAT. THIS CORPSE FLOWER COULD BE FROM THE SAME FAMILY AS PORANG. MOREOVER, THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STEM AND FLOWER ARE AT FIRST THE SAME. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS ITS SIZE WHICH IS MUCH LARGER THAN THE PORANG WE KNOW. ALTHOUGH IT'S DIFFICULT TO SEE THIS FLOWER, ONCE I SAW IT, I WAS INEXPRESSIVELY HAPPY. AFTER 20 YEARS OF HUNTING FOR THIS FLOWER, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME TO SEE IT UP CLOSE AND IN ITS NATURAL HABITAT. THE FOREST WHERE THIS GIANT GROWS HAS HIGH HUMIDITY AND LOW TEMPERATURES. IT TAKES COURAGE AND STRENGTH TO GET TO THIS SUMATRAN GIANT