The legendary "Flower Flowers" appeared in the National Botanical Garden. Is it really eating people?

Author: Xie Liyuan; Editor, Production: Li Zhanyi

Recently, in the greenhouse of the National Botanical Garden (North Park) exhibition, the world's rare endangered and endangered plant giant konjac, known as the "food flower", continued to bloom, forming the world's first and under artificial cultivation conditions.

Giant Mogota has flowed once every 7 years. It has a short flowering time, only about 48 hours, and most of them bloom at night. Therefore, each blooming in the plant world is regarded as a event. At the same time, the public's interest in "Flowers Flowers" was awakened again. Are they curious that they can really eat people? This will start from a legend.

The legend of the food flower

Over the years, reports about plants such as cannibals such as cannibalism and people have continued to appear in the public's field of vision, and the shadow of "food flowers" often appear in film and television works.

The earliest news about tracking people's plants is some explorers from the second half of the 19th century. One of the Germans named Karl Lei Qi, who announced the return of the adventure that he saw a tree that can eat people on the islands of Madagascar in Africa. Local residents take it as a god tree. Once a man climbs to the god tree, the leaves with hard spines on the tree will wrap people tightly. After a few days, only a pile of white bones are left when the leaves are reopened.

Since then, the appalling rumors of plants in the world have begun to spread.

In the subsequent time, some people said that the food people were spent in the virgin forest of the Amazon River Basin in South America. Some people said that in the remote jungle in Africa, some people said that they were hidden on the island of Java in Indonesia.

Although some reports of the report are quite detailed, in all the reports, no one has come up with direct evidence about the plants of the food human, nor does it point out which subject it is or which genus it is.

The tallest "Food Flower" -Giant Mogota

Giant Mogota, also known as "corpse flower", is a genus plant of Konjac in Tiannan Sinico. It is native to the tropical dense forest in Sumatra Island in western Indonesia. It is a rare and endangered plant in the world.

In fact, the giant tomb does not eat people, so why is it called "food flower"?

Although the giant tomb is a herbaceous plant, it has the world's largest spute inflorescence. Now the highest inflorescence is more than 3 meters. During flowering, giant tombot releases its own gases that contain more than 100 chemicals. The main components are hydrocarbon compounds and sulfide, which smells like the smell of meat. At the same time, its inflorescence grows rapidly, which can grow about 10 cm a day, and some "click" sounds will be issued during the growth process.

The locals often smell a stinky taste in the rainforest, and the folks have always spread the legend of food people. When people discover giant koses, its huge body, the stinky smell of rotten corpse, accompanied by the sound of "click", let people imagine it as a "food flower" who eats people. It's right.

The biggest "Flower Flower" -wang Flower

The king flower is also called "big flowers". As a unique variety in Southeast Asia, it is one of the three major flowers in Indonesia. It is known for its huge flowers and smell and smell.

The Wang Hua's flower heart is a big empty hole, which is enough for a child to sit in, and add the smell of corpse it emitted, which makes people feel the fear of eating people.

In fact, the king's flowering smell is just to attract the meat rotten insects like flies. It only blooms a flower in its life. The flowers are strange, without leaves and underground stems. The whole flower is all of it. Generally, it can reach about 1 meter in diameter, up to 1.4 meters. Although its flower shape is not beautiful, it is rare in the world. Every year, a large number of tourists go to Indonesia to see its fragrance.

The flowering period of the king flower is 4 days. After the flowering period, it gradually fades, the color slowly turns black, and it will eventually become a slimy black Dongxi. However, the fans of the female flower will gradually form a rotten fruit in the following seven months. The splendid flowers end up the rotten fruits, which is also a spectacle of the plant world.

The most legendary "Flower Flower" -the wheel flower

There is also a legendary plant called sun wheel flower, which is also regarded as "food flower". It is said that the sunrise grows in the virgin forest and swamp area of ​​the Amazon River Basin America. It is very delicate. It is named after the beautiful flower plate like a gear. At the same time, it also has orchid -like seductive fragrance.

The beautiful flower plate of Xiya Lotus looks like a gear, the same as the sun wheel flower

Because the sun wheel flowers can exude a strong fragrance, coupled with the charming appearance and magnificent colors, it is not known that its fine animals will be seduced. As long as the animals touch it lightly, whether it is a flower or leaves, dozens of slender leaves that are placed on the ground will roll up like bird's claws, hold the body of the prey tightly, drag it on the humidity On the ground.

At the same time, the deadly poisonous spider living near the wheel flower -black widow poisonous spider will swarmed up and kill the animals with venom; and the feces of the black widow become a special nutrient for the sun wheel flower.

There is also a saying that it is said to be a sunrise that is circulated on the Internet. In fact, it is a plant called West Lotus, also known as passion fruit, eggs and eggs, and sunrine flowers are just plants fabricated by some people.

In life, Passion Fruit can be seen everywhere. Whether it is a supermarket or some drink shops, it can be seen. This kind of "killing" plants that "kill" in rumors have already spread around us, but it is not horrible.

Are there real food flowers in the world?

The above -mentioned flowers have the name "Flowers Flowers", but there is no "food flower". So is there a real "food flower" in the world?

So far, there is no authoritative academic work to prove the existence of food flowers. The well -known botanical masterpiece, the "Plant Natural Division of the Plant" edited by the German Engel, and the worldwide "Flower Plants and Fern Plants Dictionary" have no description of "Food Flowers".

Pork cage

Wallette Wallace, a famous British biologist, described many rare Nanyang tropical plants in the famous masterpiece "Malays Islands Travels" after he traveled to the Nanyang Islands, but has not mentioned food plants.

Bottle grass

Therefore, the vast majority of botanists believe that there may not be a class of plants (including "food flowers") in the world. The saying that appear "Flowers Flowers" may be based on the characteristics of capturing insects such as carnivorous plants such as pork cage grass, bottle grass, and flytrap. , Formed by rumor.

Caught

There are also some people who are cautious about the "Flower Flowers" and believe that there is no conclusion about whether the existence of the plants in the food. They believe that the world is big and strange. Although there is no sufficient evidence that the existence of human plants is not enough, it should not be completely denied that there are many places that human beings have not set foot on the earth. In a corner, wait for humans to discover it quietly.

(Pictures of this article: Zuo Naijun, Bai Bin, Photo.com)

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