World’s largest flower blooms in Indonesia, smells of rotting corpse!

Q.  What is the world’s largest flower called?
- Published on 27 Sep 16

a. Rafflesia arnoldii
b. Rafflesia varnoldii
c. Rafflesia carnoldii
d. None of the above

ANSWER: Rafflesia arnoldii
 
World’s largest flower blooms in Indonesia, smells of rotting corpse!The world’s largest flower Rafflesia arnoldii has been found blooming in two different locations in Indonesian rainforest in Sumatra
  • The giant red flower which smells of rotting flesh has no stems.
  • It also does not have leaves or roots
  • It blooms only for a few days.
  • Flower recently appeared in the following two locations:Taba Penanjung Forest and the Tebat Monok Forest.
  • Plant is named after Singapore founder Sir Stamford Raffles and British Botanist Joseph Arnold
  • It is an endemic plant to Sumatra
  • It has become a symbol of therein, appearing in everything from postage stamps to tourist brochures for the region
  • Indonesia is known for richness in plant diversity- it has 25,000 different flowering plant species with 40 percent of these not being found anywhere else on earth

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