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Rafflesia. Rafflesia (/ rəˈfliːz (i) ə, - ˈfliːʒ (i) ə, ræ -/), [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.
The flower of Rafflesia arnoldii grows to a diameter of around one meter (3.3 feet), [2] weighing up to 11 kilograms (24 lb). [16] These flowers emerge from very large, cabbage-like, maroon or dark brown buds typically about 30 cm (12 in) wide, but the largest (and the largest flower bud ever recorded) found at Mount Sago , Sumatra in May 1956 ...
Mimosa pudica (also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, [citation needed] action plant, humble plant, touch-me-not, touch-and-die, or shameplant) [3] [2] is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae. It is often grown for its curiosity value: the sensitive compound leaves quickly fold inward and droop ...
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. Several types of ephemeral plants exist. The first, spring ephemeral, refers to plants that emerge quickly in the spring and die back to their underground parts after a ...
Leontopodium alpinum Colm. ex Cass. Leontopodium nivale, commonly called edelweiss (German: Alpen-Edelweiß, English pronunciation / ˈeɪdəlvaɪs / ⓘ AY-dəl-vice), is a mountain flower belonging to the daisy or sunflower family Asteraceae. The plant prefers rocky limestone places at about 1,800–3,400 metres (5,900–11,200 ft) altitude.
Artemisia rehan Chiov. Artemisia rhaetica Brügger. Artemisia absinthium, otherwise known as common wormwood, is a species of Artemisia native to North Africa and temperate regions of Eurasia, [4] and widely naturalized in Canada and the northern United States. [5] It is grown as an ornamental plant and is used as an ingredient in the spirit ...
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. The antonym is polycarpic, a plant that flowers and sets seeds many times during ...
Several flowers, hundreds of which comprise the inflorescence. It produces a stemless cluster of long, rigid leaves which end in a sharp point. The leaves are 20–90 centimetres (8– 35 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), [5] rarely to 125 cm (49 in), long and 0.7–2 cm (1 ⁄ 4 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) wide, and gray-green in color.