#rafflesia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rafflesia, aggregated by home.social.
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The World’s Biggest And Stinkiest Flowers Are Facing Extinction
"All 42 known species of the parasitic plant genus Rafflesia, often known as ‘corpse flowers’, are endangered due to runaway destruction of their tropical forest habitats"
#Rafflesia #botany #flowers #conservation #EndangeredSpecies https://medium.com/grrlscientist/the-worlds-biggest-and-stinkiest-flowers-are-facing-extinction-b676ea0bb3b7
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Doesn't the #rafflesia plants look like #plants in #cartoons 🤔 hahaha xD #rofl
https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Vileplume_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
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The World’s Biggest And Stinkiest Flowers Are Facing Extinction
"All 42 known species of the parasitic plant genus Rafflesia, often known as ‘corpse flowers’, are endangered due to runaway destruction of their tropical forest habitats"
#Rafflesia #botany #flowers #conservation #EndangeredSpecies https://medium.com/grrlscientist/the-worlds-biggest-and-stinkiest-flowers-are-facing-extinction-b676ea0bb3b7
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@christhorogood.bsky.social Replying from the Fediverse thanks to #Bridgy 🔗
Please come & find more iconic plants in Southeast Asia, to intrigue more people & inspire protection of ecosystems!
👏 to you & collaborators for terrific work with #Rafflesia:
https://ccrr.obga.ox.ac.uk/
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@christhorogood.bsky.social Terrific you're #NowBridged - thank you! Will look forward to seeing your future posts & wonderful images here on the Fediverse.
#botany #PlantScience #Oxford #Rafflesia #Bridgy #BridgyFed -
"According to estimates by Dr Thorogood and collaborators, 60% of all known Rafflesia species face a severe risk of extinction (Critically Endangered) due to wholesale habitat destruction and deforestation for timber extraction and conversion to oil palm plantations and other monoculture crops. [...] Further, they note that at least 67% of known Rafflesia habitats are not protected at all"
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The Guardians of Earth’s Most Grotesque Flowers
https://atmos.earth/rafflesia-guardians-give-endangered-corpse-flower-new-life/"A motley crew of #Rafflesia enthusiasts are racing against the clock to save the #CorpseFlower—the largest flower in the world—from #extinction... Each species smells different—#botanists don’t know why—and each #flower is either female or male and needs to bloom simultaneously with its counterpart to reproduce in 24 hours before it starts rotting. Nobody can predict where, when, and if it’ll bloom again after that."
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La sfida per coltivare il fiore più grande del mondo in una città
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Rettet die Riesenblume! Rafflesien – die größten Blumen der Welt – sind stärker bedroht als gedacht. #Riesenblume #Rafflesia #Pflanzen
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"Most plants in the Rafflesia genus – which have the largest known flowers in the world – are under threat of extinction, according to an international team of botanists."
https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/plants/largest-flowers-facing-extinction/
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#Nature .. “We urgently need a joined-up, cross-regional approach to save some of the world’s most remarkable #flowers, most of which are now on the brink of being lost,” ~Dr Chris Thorogood, from the University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Article and photos of #Rafflesia. #Parasitic plant known as the #CorpseFlower
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#Philippines research offers hope for conserving enigmatic Rafflesia #plants https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/philippines-research-offers-hope-for-conserving-enigmatic-rafflesia-plants/
The seed #transcriptome of Rafflesia reveals #HorizontalGeneTransfer and convergent #evolution: Implications for conserving the world's largest flower: Jeanmaire Molina et al. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10370
"They found no genes pointing to a symbiotic relationship between #Rafflesia and #fungi, suggesting that unlike #orchids, Rafflesia may not need nutrients from fungi for successful germination."
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#December 12, 1912
#OTD In The #Chattanooga #News:
"Q. What is the largest #Flower in the world?
A. Arnold's #Rafflesia - Discovered in #Sumatra (1818). The entire flower measures about a yard across & weighs about 15 lbs."The Rafflesia arnoldii honors two men: Sir Stamford #Raffles (#Expedition #Leader) & his friend, James Arnold (#Naturalist & #Botanist), who died shortly after #Discovering the #Putrid #Bloom, which looks & smells like rotting flesh - thus the name #Corpse or #Meat flower.
