Showing posts with label Corpse Flower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corpse Flower. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 January 2019

Summer Learning Journey Week 2 Day 2 Part 3 Stranger than Fiction

Stranger than Fiction

1. Corpse Flower.corpse flowerAmorphophallus titanum (corpse flower) - 2.jpg
 Facts
  • Corpse plant bloom only once every 4 years
  • It is the smelliest and largest flower in the world
  • Corpse flowers are protected by law as it is very rare


2. The Lithop
Facts
  • The thick pebble like leaves is the main visible parts of lithops
  • Unlike other plants the leaves of lithop are brown or grey
  • Lithops can be found in various colors like white, grey, pink and purple
  • Lithops will live for more than 50 years
 lithopImage result for lithop

Three Similarities between these two plants are
1)  They both like hot temperatures
2) The both have flowers that can be in different colours
3) They both have special leaves as well.

Three differences.
1) The Corpse plant is very large and the Lithop is very small.
2) The Corpse flower smells very badly and the Lithop does not
3) The Corpse flower is endangered and the Lithop is not.