A Rafflesia Flower Not Smell Good
But when the flower blooms the noticeable stinky smell spreads.
A rafflesia flower not smell good. The rafflesia is nicknamed the corpse flower for very good reason. Different types of rafflesia photos are published under cc attribution license click on the images to enlarge gallery. If the flower is fertilized fruit is produced.
However some species of rafflesia smell like roadkill others for only a few hours while a few smaller species barely smell at all. Considered one of the rarest in the world not only for its gigantic petals but also for the putrid smell it emits to attract pollinators and prey the genus rafflesia is endemic in malaysia thailand indonesia and the philippines. The chances of successful pollination are very rare as only 10 to 20 of the buds develop to flowers.
Physical description and smell with the largest flower in the world and an obnoxious smell of rotten flesh the rafflesia arnoldii also known as the corpse flower plant is unique in every way possible. Different types of rafflesia photos are published under cc attribution license click on the images to enlarge gallery raflesia. A specimen of rafflesia arnoldii in sumatra indonesia.
So there are flowers that look good or smell good some are edible or medicinal there are some unusual flowers and here is once such flower which said to be the largest blooming flower in the world rafflesia. It is perhaps the largest and most magnificent flower in the world was how sir stamford raffles described his discovery in 1818. Instead the tetrastigma vine that hosts the flower provides its nutrients and food.
This in turn attracts flies who help to pollinate it. The flower emerges from huge maroon or reddish cabbage like buds about 30 centimeters wide. The rafflesia spends about nine months as a bud and as a bud it does not spread the stinky smell.
From carnivorous blooms to poisonous posies not all flowers are as sweet. It can grow to be 3 feet across and. Because the rafflesia does not have a chloroplast genome lacks chlorophyll it is incapable of photosynthesis.