Berlin, a man who is more familiar with Aldi, worked for four years in the Berlin Botanical Garden, as an expert on the botanical garden with a specialization in Araceae and tropical swamp waters. TO DW IndonesiaQuoted on Wednesday (7/7/2025), Arnaldi Indra Prazeti shared his experience in leaving some colors of the corpse from Sumatra.
DW: How can the story of a corpse flower from Sumatra get to the Berlin Botanical Gardens?
Arnaldy: Amorphophallus Titanum (Corpse Flower) discovered around the 1900s of Odordo Beckari, an Italian botanist who studied the plant in Sumatra.
Then he brought plant tubers to Florence (Firlenz), Italy to find out how this plant is multiplying.
After conducting research, the Botaniki team in Firenze found that this plant was unique, very valuable, and they tried to find ways to propagate it. Therefore, they send plants to several botanical gardens in Europe, which have plant exchange programs and are focused on the care of disappearing plants.
What is difficult to take care of the flowers of carcasses in the tropical house of the Botanical Garden?
This plant usually grows on the slopes of tropical tropical forests, so the tubers are not easily damaged by water or are sick of mushrooms, or eat nematodes (segmented worms).
To dilute it in Europe, in which there are four seasons, especially in a tropical greenhouse, of course, differs. We must look for a good “recipe” of planting the environment, which resembles a state of humidity and temperature in its natural habitat on Sumatra. Watering with certain pauses. In addition to paying attention to nutrition, it is also important to pay attention to whether the tubers are inactive (resting or inactive conditions) or not.
As an expert on the botanical garden who experiences carcasses of carcass, which is unique in the color of the corpse, in addition to a sharp smell?
Freedom, love and beauty.
Freedom, it blooms, and time cannot be attached when.
Love, flowers are composite, consisting of thousands of male and female flowers, which bloom alternately in order to be able to perform a cross -breath, not incest.
Beauty, this is from the color of the petals (spatha), which is painted like the blood of a rotting animal – for camouflage attracts insects except the smell, so insects want to fly into the petals and help pollination. The beauty of this floral flowering is also only three days.
Three days later, the petals are closed and compressed, and then, then, what is the flowering of a corpse or rests?
After the petals are compressed, the plant dries, energy is stored back into tubers. To remove the flower, this tuber requires very large and high energy. This tuber rests from 6 to 8 months. New shoots will appear later. It will take from 3 to 10 years, until it is flourished again.
In white botanical gardens there are several flower tubers of the corpse that flourish at different times. But the corpse flower, which blooms at the end of June 2025, is the largest color for the frame, when we has flourished, 2.36 meters high. Earlier in 2018, tubers differed from the same type, and they reached 1.99 meters high.
Increase
What is the journey of Aldi, from Semarang to Berlin, until, finally, the “leader of the group” in the field of Araceae and the Berlin waters of Tropical Rawa Rawan will work?
Wow, the story is long. As my name is Arnaldi, does not differ much from (Rafflesia) Arnoldi, right? I really love plants. Initially, I wanted to be the Minister of Environment, who protected Indonesian plants, but the road was difficult, so I decided to work in botanical gardens.
Starting with the capture AUSBILDUNG How Zierpflanzengärtner (As amended by professional education in the field of maintenance of decorative plants) in 2015 in the city of Kuxkhan, in Germany Netertsen. There, I learned a lot to the production of a breeding plant for sale.
The second year I decided to continue the Ausbildung (vocational education) at Loki-Schmidt Botanischer Garten Hamburg (Loki-Schmid Hamburg Botanical Gardens). There I studied the tropical, subtropical, Stauden Mehrjährig (annual plant). Two years later, Ausbildng was settled. I was the only Asian and became one of the best graduates in the field of Zirpflanzengärtner.
Now, after graduation, I found another job. They worked at a funeral in Olsdorf, Hamburg. It works to organize a landscape of plants and tombs, even to become a funeral manager. This is a really complex and valuable experience.
The Botanisser Garten Rostock again changed the work of Botanisser, taking care of open plants – “alpine”.
Finally, in 2020, Botanisser Garten Berlin joined the botanist.
