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The world’s largest flower, known as Rafflesia arnoldii, can be found in the rainforests of Asia. It can grow up to 3 feet in ...
You'd have to be like Indiana Jones and hack your way through a thick jungle if you want to find the rafflesia – and even then, this beautiful flower doesn’t just grow on trees, because it ...
By feeding on its host, rafflesia is able to produce the world's biggest flower, a metre across ... vicious spines which protect it from plant-eating animals. On reaching the surface the bud ...
The corpse flower, also called Rafflesia, is the world’s biggest ... It's a charcoal powder, which stops other animals eating the seeds before they can germinate and also contains nutrients ...