At First There Was An Unpleasant Smell, It Turned Out That The Carcass Flowers Grew In The Residents' Houses, Now Many Are Coming

Corpse flower in Tanjungpinang (ANTARA)

TANJUNGPINANG - The corpse flower was found growing in the backyard of a resident in Batu IX Village, Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands (Kepri).

The owner of Tuti's house, in Tanjungpinang, explained that the carcass flower had been found 10 days ago. Initially, Tuti did not know that what she had found was a corpse flower.

"There is an unpleasant smell like a dead animal. But you don't know that the smell comes from the flower," said Tuti, quoted by Antara, Thursday, April 22.

The discovery of the corpse flower immediately attracted the attention of the residents of Tanjungpinang. This happened after Tuti uploaded it to social media Facebook.

Many schoolchildren and local residents came to his house just to see the corpse flower.

"Almost every day someone came," he said.

Tuti said that when she was first found it looked fresh. There are yellow and red colors in the middle of the flower. However, he said, in the last four days it had begun to wither.

"Looks like it's about to collapse," said Tuti.

Carrion flower or giant flower in Latin is called amorphophallus which comes from Ancient Greek "amorphos" which means "defect, without form" and "phallos" which means "penis".

There are 170 types of corpse flowers worldwide and about 25 types of which can be found in Indonesia, namely eight types in Sumatra, six in Java, three in Kalimantan and one in Sulawesi.