Edelweiss Anaphalis javanica is a famous mountain plants, this plant can reach a height of 8 m and has a trunk of a human foot, but this beautiful plant is now very rare.
Edelweiss is a pioneer plant for young volcanic soils in mountain forests and able to maintain its existence in a barren land, being able to form mycorrhizae with certain soil fungi that effectively expand the area covered by the roots and increase efficiency in the search for nutrients. The flowers are very favored by the insect, more than 300 kinds of insects such as fleas, tirip, butterflies, flies, wasps and bees seen visiting.
If the plant is allowed to grow their branches sturdy enough, edelweiss can become nesting places for birds Tiung Myophonus glaucinus sly stone. Edelweiss parts often are picked and brought down from the mountains for reasons of aesthetic and spiritual, or just a memento by the climbers. In February to October 1988, there were 636 recorded rods had been taken from Gunung Gede-Pangrango. Within certain limits, and all just small pieces that are picked, this pressure can be faced.
Unfortunately greed and false hopes have been sacrificed many populations, especially populations located in the paths. The research has been done shows that edelweiss can be propagated easily by cutting the branches. Therefore, the pieces may be sold to visitors to reduce pressure on wild populations.
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