aboriginal to Southeast Asia , the durian tree has not been grown successfully in many other places . Most well - known for its pungent , strange - tasting yield , this is actually one of the many adaptations that has made the tree so successful in the area where it has been found to thrive .

Flowers and Pollination

Durian peak sprout directly fromthe main trunkof the tree diagram , and soma in large clusters . Colors range from off - Patrick Victor Martindale White to brown , and they have a smell that is near as distinctive as the fruits that prepare from them . The blossom are closed during the sidereal day and clear at night , as the main pollinator of the durian is the first light chiropteran . Attracted by the spirit and the nightly show of reinvigorated pollen , the first light bat confab numerous flowers in turn of events and propagate the pollen . Although both male and female flowers will be born on the same tree , these bloom open at different time , get more than one Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree necessary .

Fruits

The fruits appear once a yr , and have a hard olfactory perception that has been essay to be described numerous prison term — with often completely different results . The smell might make humans nauseous , but it attracts scallywag , birds and rodent . The fruits fall from the tree and often ruin open on the background , where they are consumed — or broken apart and rust — by the animals attract to the scent . The fruits contain only five seeds , which can pass undigested through the animal and are deposited elsewhere when the animate being eliminates . The seeds are large , and generally are only eaten by the great animate being that the yield attracts , such as the elephant .

Bark

The barque of the durian tree is scratchy and textured with a number of cracks and rift running vertically along the tree diagram ’s surface . The bark sporadically peels off in temporary formula as a defense mechanism against some of the harmful flora growths that can appear on the bark of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . The areas where durian yield are native are also home to a variety of epiphytic plant and vine that are known to attach themselves to trees to climb to the canopy ; in the process , they can slowly strangle the tree they are attached to . The peeling barque do away with the threat of this , and , with it , any parasitical plant are also shed off .

Buttresses

The durian Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree can grow to grow meridian of up to 150 base improbable ; this summit help to see to it that at least some of the fruits will smash when they hit the background , attract animals . The tree can form buttress to help becalm it against the component and aid to keep it full-strength . Without these buttress roots , the tree would be extremely susceptible to being blown down in windstorm or damaged in other types of weather .

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