A flower stinking like rotten meat bloomed in the south of Slovakia for the first time. It took him – we are
The stink attracts small beetles.
Šahy. The unusual plant Amorphophallus, also called Viper, is grown by Šahan Pavel Makovínyi in a pot for forty years. This year the flower appeared on it for the first time than the palm. The smell of rotten meat, which is typical and spread around, attracted small beetles. How long the flower lasts, the grower does not know.
In Slovakia last year aroused a stir of another species, Amorphophallus Titanum – Amorfofalus huge. In Botanická in Bratislava Garden Standing people in the ranks so that the stinking plant can see and feel. It grows to a two -meter height.
Other species tubers are a popular and frequently used food in Asian countries.
In the garden at the house in the center of the horn
Pavel Makovínyi received an unusual tuber from his colleagues in the mid -1980s when he worked in the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Where she came from, she has no idea. It is a tropical thermophilic plant.
« All of there were little Mičurinci. They told me that if the plant blooms, you need to go to the holidayhe smells so much, ”he laughs.
A flower that has a cup -shaped shape and is a feast for the eyes has a typical aroma or rather a rotting odor of a stuck meat.
Šahan has grown the plant for four decades, but so far only leaves have been seen. They rotted every autumn. He then removed the tuber from the ground and let the pantry hibernate. In the spring he planted it again in a pot. Over the past years, it has grown to a height of 1.2 meters. Now it is less than 70 centimeters.
Something new came out of the ground
« I planted it about a month ago. Nothing happened for a while, then something peeked out. I thought of the heretical idea that I would remove it, since I haven’t seen anything like that over the years. But three to four days, the chalice began to be specking, » he describes the exceptional season.
The cup is 25 centimeters and the stick in the middle 30 centimeters. The smell attracts insects for pollination. « There are also beetles on the flower and in the chalice I haven’t seen here before. They’re probably on an excursion, » laughs the geologist.
He is a lover of plants, especially trees. In Mobile It has an application to determine them. When he entered the blooming flower, it determined to him that it was Amorphophallus Konjac, also called the viper. In his words, the names correspond to the letters that have a drawing like a snake.
It is similar to the Asian hornet, but in the south of the Levice district, they found an endangered type of insect Read
His heart affair is exotic plants. What he would like to grow at home is a bread. « It is a tropical plant that has multi -year leaves with a large 20 to 25 centimeters. » The fruits can be treated and eaten.
Pavel Makovíny is surprised and pleased that the plant has finally bloomed. When he got the tuber, he didn’t think he would wait so long for the first flower.
The smell attracted crowds of people
A similar plant drew attention to itself last August in the Bratislava Botanical Garden.
Amorfofalus huge (Amorphophallus Titanum), also nicknamed the corpse flower, flourished in Slovakia for the first time. It is a much larger species than the Shahan has in the garden. This grows to a two -meter height. In the botanical garden, he was grown six years ago from the bean seed, which they received from his colleagues from Liberec. When he was transplanted over a year ago, his underground tuber weighed 60 kilograms.
His home environment is the wilderness of Sumatra. It could bloom every two years, alternating the leaf and flower phase of the plant’s life. In fact, botanists and the lay public all over the world are waiting for decades on his flower.
Healthy tubers
Amorfofaluses grow out of the underground tuber. This is a traditional Asian food in Amorphophallus Konjac. Used in Japan Also China, where she attributes her healing effects. The tuber is made of flour, which has due to fiber beneficial effects in weight reduction.
