BRIN Allows Visitors To Approach Giant Carrion Flowers In Cibodas Botanical Gardens

JAKARTA - The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) of the Cibodas Botanical Gardens provides access for visitors to enter the fence to be able to see closely the bloom of a giant carcass flower under the Latin name Amorphophallus titanum Becc.

Grand Manager of the Cibodas Botanical Gardens Joko Sulistio in Cianjur, Sunday, said that visitors who can enter the fence are enough by buying a t-shirt that reads Amorphallus titanum Becc which is provided by the manager accompanied by officers.

"So the distance from visitors who want to see the corpse flower that blooms only a few meters will be accompanied by security officers to avoid disturbances in corpse flowers, including prohibiting visitors from touching it," Joko said as quoted by Antara.

Not only visitors who increased when the corpse flower began to bloom perfectly, he said, many content creators came to the botanical garden to make videos, so his party expressed appreciation for being able to promote the Cibodas Botanical Garden (KRC) and knowledge of corpse flowers. The corpse flower as high as 3 meters is more than the diameter of the flower petals which reached 161 centimeters in great demand so that the visitor limit with corpse flowers is quite close, unlike the previous year.

"When the news began to get busy with the bloom of the 76th giant corpse flower which is a collection of rare flowers owned by the KRC, the number of tourists who came increased by 50 percent every day and a lot of content creators came," he said.

Indirectly added he, content creators can provide an overview of the KRC, especially the knowledge of the corpse flower that is included in this protected plant or flora every year that blooms on the KRC.

Meanwhile, a number of visitors who had the opportunity to take a close look at the giant corpse flower that blooms once a year at the KRC, feel that they have had a new experience because so far they have only been able to see from behind the barrier fence and are blocked by the wire.

"This is the first experience after seeing giant corpse flowers bloom at the KRC several times, we can see closely the flower petals that are surrounded by flies, we are only limited to barriers so we can take pictures with the background of corpse flowers," said a visitor from Depok, Esya (32).