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The 42 known species of the parasitic plant Rafflesia, known as the corpse flower, are endangered due to the destruction of forest habitats.
A rare corpse flower that smells like rotting flesh has successfully bloomed at a botanical garden in Scotland. Known as the 'world's stinkiest flower,' the Amorphophallus titanum emits a terrible ...
When it blooms, this stinky flower releases chemicals that smell like rotting flesh to attact pollinators, such as carrion beetles and flies.
Rafflesia kemumu in the rainforest of Sumatra. Flowers in the Rafflesia genus are some of the world's largest, but also smelliest. Chris Thorogood ...
'The Smelliest Plant in the World' Blooms in London's Kew Gardens June 18 marked a “a momentous day for bad-smelling plants” as two of the “world’s rarest and smelliest plants” flowered ...
Large crowds have gathered at a botanical garden in south-eastern Australia in order to see one of the world's smelliest flowers bloom. The mighty plant is nicknamed the 'corpse flower' because ...
Most species of the famously large Rafflesia flower, which has long captured the imagination with its enormous speckled red petals, are now at risk of extinction, a new research has warned.