Beautiful Edelweis Anaphalis Javanica

Edelweis Anaphalis javanica is a famous mountain plant, this plant can reach a height of 8 m and has a trunk of a human foot, but beautiful plant that is now very rare.
Edelweiss is a pioneer plant for young volcanic soils in mountain forests and is able to survive on an uninhabited land, because it is able to form mycorrhizae with certain soil fungi which effectively expands the area reached by its roots and improve efficiency in the search for nutrients.
Notice the leaves are long, thin and hairy, and the central part of the orange flowers and flower heads that resemble daisies. Flowers Edelweis could reach more than 100 years of age, for that is called the perennial flowers. This type of strong pioneering plant and began inhabiting the barren slopes by fire. Edelweis suitable to grow in the sweltering heat conditions in open areas in the crater and the summit, could not compete to grow in the forest, dark and damp.
The flowers are favored by insects, more than 300 kinds of insects such as ticks, tirip, butterflies, flies, wasps and bees seen visiting. If the plant is allowed to grow branches branches sturdy enough, edelweiss can become nesting places for birds tiung Myophonus glaucinus sly stone.
Parts of the edelweiss often picked up and taken down from the mountains for reasons of aesthetic and spiritual, or just a memento by the climbers. Within certain limits and along the only pieces - small pieces were picked, this pressure can be encountered. Unfortunately greed and false hopes have been sacrificed many populations, especially populations located in the paths.
The research has been done shows that the edelweiss can be propagated easily by cutting its branches. Therefore, the pieces may be sold to visitors to reduce pressure on wild populations.