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One of the most exotic flowers in the world is the Kibut or the giant carcass flower with the Latin name amorphophallus titanum Becc., This flower is a plant of taro tribe (Araceae) grown in the territory of Indonesia. As an endemic plant from the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. This plant is known as the largest flower (plural) plant in the world. Although there is a record that says that relatives, namely A. gigas is also a type of endemic plants from Sumatra can produce flowers as high as 5m. Plant kibut which has a large flower is also called a carcass, because the flowers that smell like a decaying carcass. It naturally has to invite other beetles and insects like flies to pollinate the flowers.
Kibut is also similar to the type of giant patma plant Rafflesia arnoldii. Both types of plants have flowers that are super-sized from the size of the flowers in general, from these two types of giant flowers are both issued a bad smell bad. Amorphophallus species also grow in the tropical rainforests of Kayan Mentarang National Park in Malinau District. This huge flowering plant has two phases in its life with its alternating appearance. In this plant there are two phases of vegetative phase and generative phase. In the vegetative phase will be marked by the appearance of leaves and stems semunya. Its height ranges between 6m. After some time the vegetative organ is wilted and the tuber dormant. If there is a food reserve on the bulb and the supportive environment, the compound interest will appear. But if the food reserves less grow back leaves.The flowers have a very large and tall size, shaped like a phallus surrounded by a large flower of flowers. The flowers have one home and protogini: receptive female flowers first, then followed by the male flower. This is as a mechanism to prevent self-pollination. Until 2005, the highest record of interest in captivity is held by the Botanical Garden of Bonn, Germany. In the Botanical Gardens of Bonn this plant yielded a 2.74 M interest rate in 2003. Later on October 20, 2005, flowers bloomed with a height of 2.91M at the Botanical Gardens and Animals Wilhelma, Stuttgart Germany. However, the Cibodas Botanical Garden, Indonesia claims that the blooming flowers there reached a height of 3.17 M in 2004. The exotic flower that exists in the world is Kibut or the giant carcass flower bloom and last for about a week,
