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Flower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A flower is regarded as a modified stem (Eames, 1961) with shortened internodes and bearing, at its nodes, structures that may be highly modified leaves. For example, the two subclasses of flowering plants may be distinguished by the number of floral organs in each whorl: dicotyledons typically having 4 or 5 organs (or a multiple of 4 or 5) in each whorl and monocotyledons having three or some multiple of three. For funeral flowers and expressions of sympathy for the grieving en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flower   (1706 words)

Floridata: Stapelia spp. The carrion flowers are cactuslike succulents with four-angled, coarsely toothed, spineless stems. The carrion flowers are native to arid, usually rocky, deserts in tropical and southern Africa, where they often grow in the partial shade of larger plants or rocks. Carrion flowers are usually grown in containers and given a distinct cool, dry rest period in winter. www.floridata.com /ref/S/stap_spp.cfm   (458 words)

Carrion flower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While a typical flower may be stereotyped as a colorful, sweet-smelling structure that attracts insects and rewards them with pollen, this scenario is not true for carrion flowers. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. The world's largest flower head is Amorphophallus titanum, which is also a carrion flower. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carrion_flower   (190 words)

Stinking Flowers Carrion flowers are masters in the art of deception because they lure these insects into their blossoms. The overpowering stench of some carrion flowers may be caused (in part) by putrescine (1,4-butanediamine) and cadaverine (1,5-pentanediamine), relatively simple amine compounds derived from the amino acids ornithine and lysine. The striking, tubular flower of Dutchman's pipe is held upright as it emits a foul, pungent odor. waynesword.palomar.edu /ww0602.htm   (4823 words)

Orbea The flowers are 10—100 mm in diameter and are borne in few- to many-flowered inflorescences, appearing together or in quick succession. The flowers are flattish, with a deep reddish colour and a lighter central annulus. Flowering is in late summer, December to March, when one to four flowers are borne successively near the upper parts of the stems. www.plantzafrica.com /plantnop/orbea.htm   (2473 words)

The world?s smelliest flower produces an aroma like a dead corpse, why? in The AnswerBank: Animals & Nature Carrion flowers mimic the smell a rotting corpse in order to attract flesh and faecal loving insects. As the insects pass from flower to flower pollination occurs. Carrion flowers also resemble flesh with their dark red flowers. www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1166.html   (251 words)

Pollination syndromes The flowers are relatively simple with parts arranged in whorls and having a somewhat leaf-like appearance. The actual flowers are the small and yellow structures in the center of the display. These flowers attract beetles and carrion flies who pollinate the plant as they are fooled into trying to lay eggs on the flower. www.cas.vanderbilt.edu /bioimages/pages/pollination.htm   (1087 words)

Carrion Flower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) We have had a potted carrion flower (Stapelia gigantea) for many years and it continues to grow and bloom in spite of the fact that it has very little soil in its pot. The color of the center of the flower is a deep red, like a wound, which is what flies would normally be attracted to on a carcass. The carrion flower has a number of other common names, as creative as it is strange. home.att.net /~larvalbugbio/carrionflower.html   (268 words)

California Wild Summer 2003 - Rafflesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) It was one of the numerous male flowers in the area, and its age suggested that its pollen had already been harvested. In female flowers, which are much rarer, tiny, peanut-shaped seeds develop by the thousands in the heart of the central column. Closer inspection reveals that the flowers are slowly emerging from lianas buried in forest leaf-litter. www.calacademy.org /calwild/2003summer/stories/rafflesia.html   (1366 words)

[No title] The carrion flower Dracunculus vulgaris is surprisingly common in Goleta gardens. The actual flowers of the dragon plant are clustered around the base of the long cylindrical spadix. Flowers waiting for pollination are just out of sight at the bottom of the pit. www.goletavalleyvoice.com /cgi-bin/frontpage/readarticle.cgi?article=985   (727 words)

Ion Exchange - Smilax herbacea - Carrion Flower Anywhere from 12 - 85 tiny green-white flowers form in a ball at the end of a flattened, 4 to 9 inch long flower stalk. The flowers have the odor of rotting flesh which attracts the insects necessary for pollination. Carrion Flower was used by both early settlers and native Americans. www.ionxchange.com /species_pages/s/smilax_herbacea.html   (265 words)

AC Moore Herbarium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) This is a flower that somehow resembles road kill. What's more, the flowers are highly odorous, and not pleasantly: they give off the perfume of a dead animal. The flower's color, texture and odor produced in fact mimic dead critters, and with reason, as they attract and are pollinated by flies. cricket.biol.sc.edu /acmoore/mysteryplants/119.html   (330 words)

MSPEDIA - CARRION FLOWER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) They are named for the unpleasant odour of their large flowers. The carrion odour attracts flies, which pollinate the plants and lay their eggs there. Carrion flowers have thick, four-sided, grooved stems, often coloured or covered with outgrowths. homepage.eircom.net /~manics/MSPedia/Carrion.htm   (98 words)

Burke's Backyard Archives 1998 - Stinky Plants The carrion flies come into the flower to feed and lay their eggs into what they believe is rotting flesh. The eggs will hatch and die but the flower has achieved its aim as the flies leave with pollen on their legs and bodies to pollinate other stapelias. This is very attractive to flies, which carry away the spores on their legs and bodies thereby spreading the colony. www.burkesbackyard.com.au /1998/archives/26/in_the_garden/flowering_plants_and_shrubs?p=2502&&mysource_site_extension=printer_friendly_pages   (335 words)

The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy: Saving the Places We Care About™: Membership Flowers come in a variety of sizes, shapes, colors, and perfumes to attract their particular animal pollinator. Beetle flowers produce a fruity fragrance and have white or pastel colors that can be seen from a distance. To include flower types listed on the pollinator cards that are not growing in your garden, use a picture, plastic plant, or a potted plant with the appropriate characteristics. www.wpconline.org /gardens/curriculum/3-4-made-for-each-other.htm   (2531 words)

Carrion Flower - Search Results - MSN Encarta Carrion Flower - Search Results - MSN Encarta Carrion Flower, common name for any of several related cactus-like herbaceous plants of the dry tropics with flowers that have a putrid odour. The fragrance of flowers is caused by minute quantities of volatile oils formed by the alteration of essential oils in petals. uk.encarta.msn.com /Carrion_Flower.html   (116 words)

EIU BioSci Thut Greenhouse Desert Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) The flowers are tubular to narrowly bell-shaped, in long-stemmed spikes. Carrion flower - Occurring in southern Africa, the Carrion flower is like a small cactus but without thorns. The flowers are pollinated by flies attracted to the flowers by their odor and color which resembles rotting, fatty meat. www.eiu.edu /~grnhouse/gh_tour/desert_room.htm   (429 words)

Vivaria Projects - column foul flowers A well smelling carrion flower attracts a cloud of green and blue bottle flies and such. Therefore, some of these flowers have been building into very clever flytraps, from which they can escape only after they have done their job. Other flowers are convincing enough that flies will eat from them or try to lay eggs on the surface. www.vivaria.nl /peter/archive03.html   (630 words)

carrion - Search Results - MSN Encarta Carrion Flower, common name for any of several related cactuslike desert herbs with flowers that have a putrid odor. Carrion Beetle, common name for a family of insects that usually feed on dead animal matter or decaying vegetation. Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers--quickly search thousands of articles from magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian. ca.encarta.msn.com /carrion.html   (79 words)

Search Results for "flower" ...A flower with a flat, strap-shaped corolla, found in members of the composite family, as the units of a flower head of the dandelion or the marginal units of a flower... ...Any of the tiny tubular flowers in the central portion of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy.... From the pattern of spots on its flowers.... www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col61&x=10&y=12&query=flower   (279 words)

Nikon MicroscopyU: SMZ1500 Fluorescence Digital Image Gallery - Carrion Flower Root Carrion flower (Smilax herbacea) is an American woodland vine. Though not a true carrion, the plant is so described due to its odiferous nature. Carrions (after which the carrion flower is named) are members of the milkweed family and are native to tropical areas of southern Africa. www.microscopyu.com /galleries/smz1500/carrionflowerrootsmilaxsmall.html   (106 words)

PlantFiles: Detailed information on Carrion Plant, Carrion Flower, Starfish Plant, Toad Plant, Zulu Giant (Stapelia ... Flowers are pale yellow with reddish stripes, covered with white hairs. It's flowers are a wonderful shade of maroon and their aroma is that of a rather decayed animal-perfect for attracting flies. Secondarly flowers formation is very difficult at the latitude where I live (Italy): once the small flowers develope the pot should not be moved or turned of one single millimiter and humidity should be very low otherwise the small flowers die. davesgarden.com /pf/go/2273   (964 words)

glossary This is where new leaves or flowers are made in the Spring. Then, when it visits another flower for the same kind of plant, it accidentally delivers pollen to it. Flowers often have bright colors to attract insects. www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/glossary.htm   (2637 words)

Anglepod: A Different Milkweed And Its Pollinators, Gonolobus suberosus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Carrion Flower is one of the Stapeliads, a plant group from Africa whose odoriferous nectar mimics the stench of dead animals. Some stapeliads have very complex flowers that require pollinators to enter and stay for lengthy periods, kicking and probing until pollen packets (pollinia) are released. First, in a volume that covered plants of the world, we learned the Carrion Flower stapeliad we had maintained in our high school lab is in the Asclepiadaceae, a family that includes the North American milkweeds. www.hiltonpond.org /ThisWeek060522.html   (1384 words)

[No title] Flowers and fruits are modified in a variety of ways in order to facilitate pollination and seed dispersal, both by biotic and abiotic means. When moving between flowers and fruits, try to gain a sense of the relationship between the flower and fruit as the fruit represents merely a later developmental stage of the flower. When looking at a whole flower, if the floral parts can be arranged so that any cross section of the flower has a mirror image, it is called radially symmetric. www.msu.edu /course/plb/106/flowersandfruits_s06.doc   (2504 words)

Pollination Video Worksheet The male wasp is fooled into thinking the flower is a female by looks and scent. You may not have realized that grasses and trees were flowering plants because they lack petals, or colorful ones anyway. Teasel plants have adapted moats of water between their leaves to prevent ants from climbing up to flowers. www.lec.edu /facstaff/vieira/BI100pollen.htm   (1129 words)

Burke's Backyard Archives 2002 - Smelly Succulents These plants are grown for their novelty value, not for their attractive appearance or sweet smelling flowers. The bell-shaped flowers are red-brown on the outside and yellow on the inside with red-brown spots. The hairy, star-shaped flowers are purple-brown marbled with yellow. www.burkesbackyard.com.au /2002/archives/2002/in_the_garden/flowering_plants_and_shrubs2/smelly_succulents?mysource_site_extension=printer_friendly_pages   (260 words)

Yard & Garden Line News January 1, 2003 The underlying biological purpose of flower fragrance is to advertise to insects that food (nectar or pollen) is available, or to fool the insects into a hungry or amorous condition. A large number of flower fragrances are simpler forms of the terpene resins that seep from pine trees. Flowers tend to be the most fragrant when they have sufficient nutrition. www.extension.umn.edu /yardandgarden/YGLNews/YGLN-Jan0103.html   (4612 words)

Stapelia gigantea The extremely large, starfish-shaped flowers of Stapelia gigantea are pale yellow with reddish stripes. As they buzz from flower to flower, flies collect pollen and transport it to the next plant, thereby ensuring the successful pollination of this species. The flower’s putrid smell and hairy, leathery texture mimic the rotting flesh of a dead animal. plantconservatory.calpoly.edu /Tour/Stapelia.html   (145 words)

SAWYER, NEIL W.* AND GREGORY J. ANDERSON.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Both inflorescence and flower number were significantly correlated with plant size in male, but not in female plants, implying inflorescence and flower production were less constrained in male plants. The carrion-like odor of male and female tepals and the pollen reward of the staminate flowers attract bee, beetle, and fly visitors. Due primarily to their high mobility and pollen carrying capacity, andrenid and halictid bees and anthomyiid and stratiomyiid flies are considered major pollinators. www.ou.edu /cas/botany-micro/bsa-abst/section3/abstracts/14.shtml   (320 words)

Earth stories for kids What she had sat upon was not meat but a flower, which stinks. The carrion flower is one of the many flowers which give out dirty smells to attract flies. As soon as the blow-fly sits on the flower, it is captured by the flower with strong hair. www.pitara.com /discover/earth/online.asp?story=44   (256 words)

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