Pechas trace their history and unique shape back to the palm leaf manuscripts of India where talipot palm leaves were used in the creation of texts as early as the 500 BCE . The earliest existing palm leaf manuscripts date from 200 C . E . and were in continuous use until the 19th century.
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The talipot palm bears the largest inflorescence of any plant, long, consisting of one to several million small flowers borne on a branched stalk that forms at the top of the trunk ( the titan arum, " Amorphophallus titanum ", from the family Araceae, has the largest unbranched inflorescence, and the species " Rafflesia arnoldii " has the world's largest single flower ).
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Both " Rafflesia " and " Amorphophallus " are flowering plants, but they are only distantly related . " Rafflesia arnoldii " has the largest " single " flower of any flowering plant, at least in terms of weight . " A . titanum " has the largest " unbranched " inflorescence, while the talipot palm ( " Corypha umbraculifera " ) forms the largest " branched " inflorescence, containing thousands of flowers; the talipot is monocarpic, meaning the individual plants die after flowering.
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Both " Rafflesia " and " Amorphophallus " are flowering plants, but they are only distantly related . " Rafflesia arnoldii " has the largest " single " flower of any flowering plant, at least in terms of weight . " A . titanum " has the largest " unbranched " inflorescence, while the talipot palm ( " Corypha umbraculifera " ) forms the largest " branched " inflorescence, containing thousands of flowers; the talipot is monocarpic, meaning the individual plants die after flowering.
