Mulfitiore
Cranium Originales, commonly named Skull Flower, is
distinguished by its strong coloured flowers, often in deep red,
crimson or pink variations. The plant got its name after the
skull-looking organic forms that some of its flowers develop.
Multifiore Cranium is very rare, but occurs all over the world in
areas characterised by sun shadow.
According to folklore, the plant
developed the skull-flowers as a result of its previously common
localisation – ancient abandoned cemeteries. The plant reproduces
through pollination.
Multifiore Cranium often grows together with the leaves Folium
Mortalis. The two plants lives in a variation of symbiosis,
in that their root systems thrives in one
another's company, maybe due to the invisible tentacles connecting
the two. This
symbiosis, however, can only come about via a special kind of micro
organism, Organum Cadavre, since the symbiosis depends on the substance that is released by
the Organum Cadavre egg hatching (a phenomenon sometimes referred to
as a mycorrhizal relationship, from the fungus function in "normal"
mycorrhiza).
Folium Mortalis belongs to the
family simple leaves – that is, they have a flat, undivided blade
that is supported by a stalk, petiole. The petiole is typically
supported by collenchyma and sclerenchyma fibers, and can sometimes
be confused with different species in the fern family. Folium
Mortalis reproduce, as do the ferns, through spores on the back side
of the leaf.
Curiosa:
Since the plant Multifiore Cranium has both pistils and stamens
it is capable of self-fertilization – what botanists describe as
perfect, bisexual, or hermaphrodite. However, in
late eighteen century this created fear and
anxiety among
some species of plants, since they realized
this flower didn’t need a partner of the opposite sex to reproduce. |