Rafflesia Flower! | Jeffrey Cinto

Meet the Rafflesia, or 'Corpse Flower', the world's largest flower! 🌺 Found only in Sumatra and Borneo's rainforests, it blooms every 2-5 years for just 5-7 days. Its rotten-meat smell tricks flies into pollinating it! This rare, parasitic plant has no roots or leaves—just a giant, stinky bloom that can stretch over 1 meter (3 feet) wide. 🎥: @trev__travels 📬 DM for credit/removal 👉 Follow @lostmyguide for nature’s most bizarre creations #CorpseFlower #Rafflesia #JungleAdventures #LostMyGuide

471K views · 6.7K reactions | A man came across a rare corpse flower in the wild while walking through a forest in Indonesia. The flower, whose scientific name is the rafflesia arnoldii, is the largest in the world and one of the rarest, as it only fully blooms for a 4-day window. It is colloquially known as a corpse flower, for the overpoweringly stinky odor it emits while mid-bloom. | NowThis | Facebook

in search of Rafflesia plant 🏵️☘️ Rafflesia is a parasitic plant that spends most of its life cycle within its host, a tropical vine, emerging only to bloom. Its flowers are the largest in the world, spanning up to a metre. Despite this, little is known about its life cycle, and it is almost impossible to grow. Chris Thorogood and colleagues went in search of the elusive flowering plant in the hope that what they learned, could help save this plant for the future. Chris Thorogood will be speaki