Rafflesi Arnoldi is a Famous Flower

In the year 1797 a French botanist named Deschamps has conducted exploration on the island of Java. In the exploration Deschamps found similar large flower we know today as the Rafflesia flower. In addition to painting Rafflesia, Deschamps also managed to collect a number of plants that he discovered during his exploration on the island of Java.

Most of us are probably many who think that the first inventor of Rafflesia flower is Sir Stamford Raffles (Governor General of England in Indonesia). We need to know that in the year 1818 (21 years after Deschamps found the Rafflesia flower) Raffles and his personal physician Joseph Arnold discovered a kind of flower we know today as the Rafflesia arnoldi on the island in the river width Manna, Bengkulu. Thus, the inventor is not the first Raffles Rafflesia flowers, but his name immortalized on the Genus and Family names of flowers in appreciation for the dedication, attention and kecintaanya the flora and the environment conservation efforts.

In the world there are about 17 types of flowers, but 12 species of which grow in tropical forest areas, including Indonesia (Bengkulu). Indonesia has a tropical rain forest large enough to serve as a natural habitat Rafflesia, spread in the West and North Sumatra, West Java, Central and East and West and East Kalimantan. Besides that Rafflesia can be found in Malayasia Peninsula, Sarawak and the Philippines. However, more diversity of species found in Indonesia.

Including parasitic plant Rafflesia because all his life depends on its host plants is of type Tetrasigma glabaratum and Tetrasigma lanceolarium. Rafflesia has no chlorophyll, no leaves and live attached to its host plants with a root-like pelekatnya (haustorium) to absorb food from its host.
Then since the year 1978 Rafflesia flower declared a protected plant species endangered status. Now we can see the great work and valuable peningggalan of Raffles Botanical Garden (Botanical Garden) in Bogor, Indonesia.
Thanks to its beauty, flowers became popular and has its own appeal, especially for flower lovers and observers, while the uniqueness and scarcity has attracted serious attention of researchers, lovers and environmentalists in an effort to find effective methods to preserve these flowers.