Corpse flower and bottle tree are to unusual plants.why are they named so?
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Two flowers are commonly referred to the corpse flower; Amorphophallus titan and Rafflesia arnoldii. They are named so because their odour resembles that of a decomposing corpse.
Pachypodium levlii is known as bottle tree plant. It is named so because its swollen, unbranched (almost up to the top) stem gives it an appearance of bottle.
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The corpse flower is the name given to 2 famous flowers namely Amorphophallus titan and Rafflesia arnoldii, this is beacause these flowers have a weird smell like that of rotting corpse (flesh) to attract pollinators.
The bottle tree is a name given to the plant pachypodium lealii because it has a stem which is in the shape of a bottled neck, this tree gives out a latex that is watery in consistency, and this is used by local hunters to poison animals.