The short answer is that the King Flower only blooms one flower in its life, and the flowering period is only 4-5 days. The bud has a fragrance at the beginning of blooming, and then it will wither. During the withering period, it will emit a pungent rancid smell, in order to attract some odor-repelling insects to pollinate it.
The King Flower is bright red with many stripes on it. In the center of the flower is a big honey trough, which looks like a big washbasin, and there is a strong smell from it. The stench of the king flower can go far away, and the big animals in the forest will run away as soon as they smell it. However, the odor-chasing insects like this odor very much. As soon as the Dawanghua blooms, small insects will fly in and help Dawanghua spread pollen while eating nectar.
King flower, also known as cannibal flower, because of this flower? Only one flower will bloom in a lifetime, and the flowering period is only 4-5 days. The bud has a fragrance at the beginning of blooming, then it will wither, and it will give off an irritating rancid smell during withering, so there is carrion flower? Corpse? Flower? Synonym of. The stench of pollen attracts scavengers such as flies to pollinate it, and squirrels are also very interested in pollen, often licking from one anther to another.
On the first day of flowering? 4? -5 days later, the petals of Dawanghua gradually turned black and withered, and became a sticky black substance in a few weeks. The female flowers that have been successfully pollinated will come later? 7? Within a month, a semi-rotten fruit gradually formed. Stunning flowers bear rotten fruit, which is really a wonder of the plant kingdom. The fruit is spherical, about? 15cm, with lignified brown epidermis, milky white, lipid-rich pulp and thousands of reddish-brown miniature seeds under the pericarp.