"Big smelly flower" of botanical garden is about to bloom
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Last Update: 2013-06-14
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Yesterday, staff of Beijing Botanical Garden removed the bracts wrapped around the spathe of Buddha's flame for the upcoming giant devil taro in the big greenhouse The giant taro in Beijing Botanical Garden is the world's highest "triplet" giant taro flower The "eldest" has grown to 2.05m, and the youngest "third" has also exceeded 1.8m Wu dysprosium, our reporter, our reporter (Ren Min) a message came from Beijing botanical garden yesterday that the tallest one of the "triplets" of the troll taro has exceeded two meters, and its last two bracts have not been opened, but its stomach is bulging first Yesterday afternoon, the staff for its implementation of "Caesarean section", artificial cutting bracts, is expected to bloom in the last two days, nearly 10 days earlier than previously predicted At present, the "eldest brother" of the "triplets" of the troll taro has grown to 2.05m, and the smallest "third brother" has exceeded 1.8m, which has become the highest "triplet" Troll taro in the world Since the beginning of June, Beijing Botanical Garden has started to "protect the fetus", adding two Yuba heaters and two humidifiers beside the flowerpot for 24-hour humidification, and also installing a temperature and humidity tester for 24-hour continuous monitoring to ensure that the humidity is saturated and the temperature is above 25 ℃ At present, in the "triplets" of the giant taro, the "belly" of the "eldest one" has bulged up, but the bracts can't fall off, but the color and shape of the Buddha flame bracts have entered the flowering period, which is the opposite of the situation before the normal blooming of the giant taro In order to prevent the "eldest brother" from overdraft, staff of Beijing Botanical Garden gave him a "Caesarean section" yesterday afternoon to remove the bracts wrapped outside the Buddha flame bracts It is expected that the flowers of "eldest brother" will bloom in the last two days Chen Jinyong, chief engineer of Beijing Botanical Garden, said that the troll taro "triplets" will open a flower every seven days, and the blooming time of each flower is 48 hours After flowering, Beijing Botanical Garden will carry out two scientific experiments, one is pollination between triplets, and the other is cross pollination between white or sweet konjac and giant konjac.
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