Rare Plants Flower carcass (Rafflesia arnoldi)

Discovered by Sir entourage Stamfort (governor of East Indi Company in Sumatra and Java) and Dr. Joseph Arnord, a naturalist who conducted an expedition in Bengkulu on May 20, 1818. Both names are perpetuated in the Latin name of this relationship by Robert Brown.

Indonesia overflowing with the incomparable wealth of biological peerless. Forests that lay tens of thousands of islands containing various species of flora and fauna, which sometimes can not be found in other parts of the earth and is one of Mega Biodiversity (biodiversity richness to ecosystem, genetic resources, and a very abundant species). No fewer than 47 types of unique natural ecosystems to the number of flowering plant species already known, as many as 11% or about 30,000 species of flowering plants throughout the world. Unfortunately, many of a particular plant species, extinct.

Until recently, the Center for Plant Conservation, Bogor Botanical Gardens Indonesia Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the three branches (Cibodas Botanical Garden, Purwodadi, and Bedugul Bali) only collects 20% of the total plant species in Indonesia. Orchid collection is less than 5% in Eastern Indonesia. For this type of durian alone, Indonesia has dozens of species, taro was the type 700, which are all very potential to be developed. According to the existing data base, there are 2 million species of plants in the world and it was 60% in Indonesia. The government now endeavored to save the riches of West Sumatra Natural Resources rare plants that are beneficial to humans through the botanical gardens to multiply efforts, national parks, nature reserves and conservation areas throughout Indonesia.

Can not imagine many kinds of plants or flora in the world. Until this very day many scientists who argue that not all types of flora that are on earth has been recognized.

Like animals, the kinds of flora is determined by its specific environment also called habitat. With human help, some of these plants spread to different parts of the earth, so that there are types that can be found in many countries, and there are unisex which is found only in his native habitat.
Environmental damage that occurred had destroyed many habitats of plants that cause the extinction of plant species specific, so that also influence the lives of animals and people living on it.