Find 2 Rafflesia Flowers At CA Batang Palupuh Agam West Sumatra, BKSDA: Blooming In A Few Days

Regional II Conservation Resort Officer Maninjau BKSDA West Sumatra is measuring the Rafflesia flower knop, Thursday (25/4/2024). Antara/Ho-BKSDA West Sumatra.

JAKARTA - As many as two individual Arnoldii types of Rafflesia flowers will bloom perfectly in the next few weeks in the Batang Palupuh Nature Reserve area, Palupuh District, Agam Regency, West Sumatra (West Sumatra). Head of the Conservation Resort Region II Maninjau of the West Sumatra Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) Rusdiyan P Ritonga said the two individual Rafflesia flowers would bloom in the next two to three weeks, because the knop was already March red. "The Rafflesia flower will bloom perfectly within a few days," he said in Lubuk Basung, West Sumatra, Thursday, April 25, which was confiscated by Antara. He said the Rafflesia flower was in the Batang Palupuh Nature Reserve area with a distance of several meters from other individuals. The Rafflesia flower nop is 52 centimeters in diameter and 42 centimeters. "It is possible that one knop will bloom with a large enough diameter later," said Rusdiyan.

He said the Batang Palupuh Nature Reserve is a habitat for rare and protected interest rates of Law Number 5 of 1990 concerning Conservation of Biological Natural Resources and Their Ecosystems. On that basis, he continued, an area of 3.4 hectares was designated as a nature reserve by the Dutch government through the Governor of Besluit Number 3 STBL Number 402 on November 14, 1930. In addition to the Rafflesia flower, he continued, nine individuals have also found the Rhizanthes lowii flower knop, and have gone through the perfect bloom process of six individuals. "This is based on data collection carried out during patrols in the area," said Rusdiyan.