Using genetics, the scientists solved a nearly 200-year-old mystery regarding the relatives of rafflesias, a group of plants whose flowers reach a petal-to-petal girth of three feet and weigh 15 ...

Giant water lilies also have large, spiked leaves that can grow up to 9 feet (3 meters) ... Flower of the parasitic plant Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), the corpse flower, Borneo.

Because rafflesia lacks the genes most commonly used to trace plant ancestry, the scientists delved deeper into the genome, looking at some 11,500 base pairs of DNA to determine that the giant ...

As she and her colleagues described it in a 2014 paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, they successfully assembled the mitochondrial DNA from one Philippines species of Rafflesia. But they were ...

Oil painting of the corpse flower or giant padma (Rafflesia arnoldii), ... Paintings of a few weird and wonderful bizarre plants that are far stranger than any in science fiction, ...

In the rainforests of southeastern Asia, a parasitic plant called Rafflesia produces the world’s largest flowers.Some Rafflesia flowers, for instance, can be a meter and a half in diameter, and ...

Mount Kinabalu is among the richest habitats for plant life anywhere on earth, home to 800 species of orchid, carnivorous pitcher plants and giant flowers that smell of rotting flesh.

As their giant petals open, the blooming of flowers in the genus Rafflesia brings with them an overwhelming odor mimics the smell of rotting flesh. While their pungent stink might keep humans away ...

The Rafflesia manillana is the tiniest species in the genus of Rafflesia. The diameter of this flower is 20 cm. The Rafflesia flower stays open only for a period of 5 to 7 days.

Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), Borneo. This plant has no stem or leaves, instead it is a parasite on a vine. By feeding on its host, rafflesia is able to produce the world's biggest flower, a ...