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World’s largest flower blooms in Kerala after 9 years and it smells like rotten flesh. Visitors are thronging Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary in north Wayanad in Kerala to get a glimpse of corpse flower . Yes, it is world’s largest flower that bloomed in Kerala after nine years.
The Giant Rafflesia, the biggest flower in the world, is a rare sight that can be spotted in just a few countries in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
The Rafflesia is found in the tropical rainforests of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. It occurs only in certain habitats as a parasite on the Tetrastigma species of woody vines.
In the Philippines, Rafflesia schadenbergiana, found only in Mindanao, is still large witha flower diameter of 0.8 meters. Co-author Professor Edwino S. Fernando of UPLB FBS added that Rafflesia consueloae is the sixth species from Luzon Island and the 13th for the entire Philippine archipelago.
No, rafflesia cannot eat a human.
(Image credit: Rafflesia arnoldii image via Shutterstock.) Flowers, typically bright and beautiful, also have a dark side. From carnivorous blooms to poisonous posies, not all flowers are as sweet and innocent as they appear.
Rafflesia are NOT carnivorous plants – the smell is only to attract pollinators, the flies are not eaten by the plant.
A rafflesia plant can only either have male or female sexual organs and rely on insects to pollinate them. Rafflesias are notoriously known as the Corpse Flower because they smell horrible. … The smell attracts flies to help pollinate these flowers.
But what makes Rafflesia flowers smell so bad? Turns out there’s a biological function for the repulsive stench: it attracts flies and other insects which pollinate the plant so it can continue the reproductive process. Chemicals like dimethyl disulfide, which contain sulfur, is what creates the rotten smell.
Thriving in rain forests, Rafflesia is in danger of extinction due to habitat loss as well as poaching — its buds are harvested and sold for medicinal properties. The plant cannot grow in captivity, and, as most occurrences of Rafflesia contain only male or female flowers, pollinations is rare.
Taxonomy. The first European to find Rafflesia was the ill-fated French explorer Louis Auguste Deschamps. He was a member of a French scientific expedition to Asia and the Pacific, detained by the Dutch for three years on Java, where, in 1797, he collected a specimen, which was probably what is now known as R. patma.
Rafflesia is one of three national flowers in Indonesia. The buds and blooms are considered a delicacy in Thailand, while in other parts of southeast Asia, the plant is thought to have medicinal powers.
In the Philippines, Rafflesia schadenbergiana, found only in Mindanao, is still large with a flower diameter of 0.8 meter. Professor Fernando, added that Rafflesia consueloae is the 6th species from Luzon Island and the 13th for the entire Philippine archipelago.
Rafflesia schadenbergiana is a parasitic plant species of the genus Rafflesia. Known as “bó-o” to the Bagobo tribe and “kolon busaw” to the Higaonon tribe of Bukidnon, it has the largest flower among the Rafflesia species found in the Philippines with a diameter ranging from 52 to 80 centimeters.
The Philippines is one of the centers of diversity of the genus Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae). At present, 13 Rafflesia species have been recorded in the country. … Afterwards, two species have been described while one species has been resurrected.