In Belgium, a corpse flower TITAN ARUM (AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANUM) considered as one of the biggest on the planet has blossomed.
The plant received such a disconcerting name due to the emitting stench which is compared with something close to the smell of stiff or rancid fish, as the television and radio broadcasting company RTL reported.
The flower in full bloom reaches 1.9 meters in height, and its weigh compounds nearly 18 kilos. Titan Arum which is available for savoring only with the handkerchief has an outjetting yellow pistil decorating purple flower-crown. It can reach the height from one and a half to three meters.
The weight of giant plant which has blossomed only for 72 hours and once in five-ten years may reach one hundred kilos. In spite of outrageous smell, some people claim that «corpse flower» could be a carrier of the strongest boost of sexual energy, as RIA Novosti informs.
Titan Arum was revealed in 1878 at Indonesian island Sumatra the citizens of which gave such uncomplimentary name. Factitiously it could be grown only in several botanic gardens of the world. The smell emanating from the flower attracts burying beetles and flesh flies which fertilize it.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
Protected environmental zone with the square of more than 1.5 million square kilometers will be located in Ross Sea. The agreement has been signed by European Union and 24 more countries, including Russia.
Since 1907 the population of mammals, fishes, birds, amphibia and reptiles has reduced by almost 60%, as it is said in the report of World Wild Nature Fund.
The authorities of Belgian Flanders are planning to build an artificial island in the waters of North Sea. The directorate of the region was forced to come to such measures because of the threatening of waterflooding of resort zone.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
At the beach Legzira located at the Atlantic coast of Morocco, there was a wreckage of one of two stone arches that used to be the famous sightseeing of the country. The Guardian reports about that.
The delegates of the conference of Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) happened in Republic of South Africa voted for prohibition of international trade in African gray parrots.
The efforts of zoologists, ecologists and significant financial expenses that have been invested in the program of salvation of ounce brought their fruits. Particularly, the predator has been seen more often by the citizens of several provinces of Afghanistan that ounce preferred choosing as its habitat.
The largest in the world kind of apes from the genus of gorillas, particularly, Eastern gorilla residing within the territory of Democratic Republic Congo is on the edge of extinction because of the illegal hunting.
USA will invest $15 million in the program on fight with the climatic change in Central Asia, the head of state department John Kerry claimed at the meeting with ministers of foreign affairs of five Central Asian countries in Washington.
One of the recent colonies of wooly mammoths located at the island of Saint Paul near Alaska died more than five thousand years ago because of lack of drinking water, as it is explained by the scientists.
The experts of travel web-portal Travelbird.nl has defined that the cheapest beach in the world is situated in Vietnam. Cua Dai is located in popular among travelers city Hoi An in the central province of the country Quảng Nam.
