carrion flower

carrion flower

I find any of these creatures in Situ Lembang, Bandung .. in the midst of pine forests that already eradicated the vegetation under it for wanting to make garden coffee.

Anyone know what this is?

I also do not know. May need to be taken to the Herbarium to be identified. But, from its shape like a flower does plasticity (?)..

Know the story of the corpse flower? Carrion flower (Rafflessia spp.) Is the flower of the parasites that live in the root-specific stem liana species whose name Tetrastigma. During the growth period, these parasites are guns showing his form. But once you enter the reproductive phase, he appear new flowers and smells like rotting carcasses.

Why such carcasses? because she needed a certain insects to aid pollination. We usually know khan, insects attracted to the beautiful flowers or fragrant. That is, because that specific insect-evolution commented with flowers like that. Some flowers such as bee orchid cursory plasticity .. he pulled drones to has copulation, thus helping to bring pollen from one flower to another. Other flowers have a bright color as a signal to insects that "I have a nectar that you can take, ya .." Various forms of related interest also with how it performs pollination - in the case of pollination by insects, related to the insect form of interest what he wants drag.

.. Back to the corpse flower because of her attraction to insects are flies that pollinate "likes" with the carcass, then that's the form of flowers.

I'm still not sure if the photo above is of interest. It may also fungi. But, the shape of guns seems like a dead useful for fungi. Ulcers around the black hole, resembling a dead khan. I also see some insects had into the hole.