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Flower faces a little bit down so not too easy to make a foto face to face.Yay! Is that oriented in the correct direction?
It grows like that to scare away real mold and fungus
My guess is, the flower mimics rotting fruit (almost looks like a fig) to attract a fly pollinator.
Any fragrance Istvan?
Nice that it grew a good growth for you this year and even managed a few flowers. Having said that, next year will be the test - will it grow another strong growth, or diminish? If it were my plant, I'd cut off the flowers this year and pass on setting any seed.
Speaking of the "fake mold" on the lip orifice, when researchers looked at the only dried specimen at the time (there was no photo taken when it was first collected) they believed that it was real mold. It was a surprise when live specimens were found again in Yunnan that they were "moldy" :rollhappy:
Yes that should be true for wild collected plants because they lost contact to there fungi. The flower in the first years is still supported by the power in the root system.... he said they flower for him the first year and then go into decline over subsequent seasons.
My apologis Rick, i did't see that you had already asked the same thing i asked.
"Legal"? How?
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/201848/0-
"Ex situ conservation: Artificial propagation, re-introduction, seed collections." -and this is kind of vague.
Hell, I'm not even allowed to repost that!!
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