What is a man-eating flower? Let us introduce you to this flower that sparks so much imagination
The man-eating flower does not actually eat people; it is in fact the Rafflesia. The man-eating flower grows in the primeval forests and swampy areas along the Amazon River in the Americas. Its form is extremely delicate and gorgeous, with a flower shape like a sun disc. The man-eating flower relies on flies to pollinate it and absorbs nutrients from other plants to live, so it has no leaves and no stem. It has no division of the four seasons at all, so it does not necessarily emerge at any particular time.
Man-eating flower
The man-eating flower is a mysterious plant with certain animal-like habits. It must swallow at least ten living lives before it can bloom into a flower, and only one in ten, that is, among ten flowers, through the continuous nourishment of living creatures, can one green little fruit be produced. It is distributed in the primeval forests and swampy areas along the Amazon River in the Americas.
Man-eating flower
Reproduction method
However, according to the local people, May to October each year is its main growing season. When it first emerges from the ground, it is only about the size of a table tennis ball. After several months of slow growth, the flower bud changes from the size of a table tennis ball to the size of a cabbage, and then 5 fleshy petals slowly open. By the time the flower is fully bloomed, two days and two nights have already passed. What is hard to believe is that the huge flower that the Rafflesia has worked so hard to produce can actually only last 4 to 5 days, and it is said that during these 4 to 5 days, the flower will continuously release a peculiar stench, so as to make large animals naturally avoid it, while letting some insects that chase odors come to pollinate it and act as matchmakers. When the petals wither, they turn into a pile of decaying black matter. Before long, the fruit also matures, hiding within it many tiny seeds, ready at any time to fall into the ground and look for a suitable place to germinate.
The image of the man-eating flower in games
Flower meaning:
If you cannot have it, then destroy it. Love each other as if every day were the end of the world.
Sacred tree:
The earliest reports about man-eating plants came from some explorers in the second half of the 19th century. Among them was a German explorer named Karl Leich, who said after returning from an expedition: "On the island of Madagascar in Africa, I saw with my own eyes a kind of tree that can eat people, and the local residents revere it as a sacred tree. There was once an indigenous woman who, because she violated the tribe's commandments, was driven to climb the sacred tree, and as a result the tree's 8 leaves with hard thorns tightly wrapped her up. A few days later, when the leaves opened again, only a pile of white bones remained." From then on, rumors about man-eating plants spread even more widely, and at the same time reports about man-eating plants also increased.