Planet earth has an amazing range of diversity among the living thing and the habits they live have caused species to evolve and adapted to their environments. A minuscule amount of this diversity will be explored by taking a closer look at Thaumoctopus mimicus, the mimic octopus, and Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum. The first animal, the mimic octopus, has acquired the unique adaption of being able to impersonate characteristic of other species as a mechanism of self defense. The mimic octopus’
Eastern North America, the Skunk Cabbage is known as Symplocarpus foetidus, and in the Western North America, it is known as Lysichiton americanus. It is seen plants in the Arum family are monocotyledon flowering plants where the flowers are borne on a spadix, which is enclosed by a leaf-like bract called a spathe (Ito-Inaba et al., 2009). This plant was given the name Skunk Cabbage because of its distinctive “skunky” odour that it emits due to the breaking and tearing of its leaves. This odour will
2. LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Origin and Distribution Tannia was originated in tropical America, but currently grown widely as a subsistence food crop in Asia, Africa and Polynesia (Bown, 2000). From five crops which are under sub family aroid the only tannia originated from Central & South America others originated from South-east Asia (Lebot, 2009). When the Europeans arrived, it was further known to have been grown from Southern Mexico to Bolivia in the Latin America. Only during the 19th century,
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) Breakthrough improvements in the major grain crops have increased world food production dramatically during the last twenty seven years. The advancements in grain production, however, have not brought significant benefits to areas where root crops are the major staples. Therefore, more emphasis should be directed toward such root crops as taro, which is a staple food in many developing nations of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. Taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott)