Helicodiceros muscivorus (
Dead horse arum lily; syn.
Helicodiceros crinitus ,
Dracunculus crinitus ) is an
ornamental plantOrnamental plants are typically grown in the flower garden or as house plants. Most commonly they are grown for the display of their flowers. Other common ornamental features include leaves, scent, fruit, stem and bark. In some cases, unusual features may be considered ornamental, such as the...
native to the northwestern Mediterranean region. It reproduces the stench of rotting meat, attracting carrion-seeking
blowfliesBlow-flies are insects in the Order Diptera, family Calliphoridae...
which act as
pollinatorA pollinator is the biotic agent that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or syngamy of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower by the male gamete from the pollen grain...
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Helicodiceros muscivorus (
Dead horse arum lily; syn.
Helicodiceros crinitus ,
Dracunculus crinitus ) is an
ornamental plantOrnamental plants are typically grown in the flower garden or as house plants. Most commonly they are grown for the display of their flowers. Other common ornamental features include leaves, scent, fruit, stem and bark. In some cases, unusual features may be considered ornamental, such as the...
native to the northwestern Mediterranean region. It reproduces the stench of rotting meat, attracting carrion-seeking
blowfliesBlow-flies are insects in the Order Diptera, family Calliphoridae...
which act as
pollinatorA pollinator is the biotic agent that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or syngamy of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower by the male gamete from the pollen grain...
s.
One of a rare group of
thermogenic plantsThermogenic plants have the ability to raise their temperature above that of the surrounding air. Heat is generated in the mitochondria, as a secondary process of cellular respiration called thermogenesis...
, the Dead Horse Arum can raise its temperature by
thermogenesisThermogenesis is the process of heat production in organisms. It occurs mostly in warm-blooded animals, but a few species of thermogenic plants exist.-Types:...
. This helps to lure flies into the plant to contact its pollen.
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