23/07/2023

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Tuesday Plants: Threatened – corpse flower

Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower or giant padma, is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth. It has a strong and unpleasant odour of decaying flesh – it’s native to the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo.    ...

Creature Feature | The wallaby

  Question – Is a Wallaby a (small type of) Kangaroo? Answer: No! The Wallaby is a small marsupial, actually much smaller than its big sister / cousin the kangaroo sister. One of the biggest characteristics of the wallaby that separates them from kangaroos is size Body Shape: Both are known to be the happy “hopping” creature of the Australian brush because they are both macropods, meaning they both have overly large feet. Kangaroo legs are really long between the...