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Rafflesia tuan-mudae is a member of the Rafflesiaceae family. It lives as a parasite within the Tetrastigma vines. The enormous flowers may reach over 1 m in diameter. [1] The buds normally emerge where the vine is growing along the ground, unlike some of the other Rafflesia species whose buds can emerge from vines hanging in the air.
Trillium grandiflorum in the foreground and the smaller Thalictrum thalictroides in the background are both spring ephemerals of North American deciduous forests. An ephemeral plant is a plant with a very short life cycle or very short period of active growth, often one that grows only during brief periods when conditions are favorable.
Rafflesia (/ r ə ˈ f l iː z (i) ə,-ˈ f l iː ʒ (i) ə, r æ-/), [2] or stinking corpse lily, [3] is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. [4] The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants; one species has the largest flower in the world.
Monocarpic plants are those that flower and set seeds only once, and then die. The term is derived from Greek (mono, "single" + karpos, "fruit" or "grain"), and was first used by Alphonse de Candolle. Other terms with the same meaning are hapaxanth and semelparous.
Plants that flower and fruit only once and then die are termed monocarpic or semelparous; these species may live for many years before they flower. [7] For example, a century plant can live for 80 years and grow 30 meters tall before flowering and dying. [ 8 ]
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Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas; Plants in culture – uses of plants by humans; Narcissus in culture – uses of narcissus flowers by humans
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