Rafflesia
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Rafflesia, or stinking corpse lily, is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower
Rafflesia arnoldii Bengkulu 01
Replica of Rafflesia flower displayed in National Museum of Natural History in Manila.
Rafflesia on hanging roots. West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Rafflesia keithii bloom, approximately 80 cm in diameter near Taman Nasional Rafflesia Bengkulu, Indonesia
Amorphophallus titanum
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Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae. It has a large unbranched inflorescence, a tall single leaf branched like a tree, and a heavy tuber which enables th
Rafflesia
…plants, but they are unrelated to each other. Rafflesia arnoldii has the largest single flower of any flowering plant, at least in terms of weight. Amorphophallus titanum has the largest unbranched inflorescence, while the talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera) forms the largest branched inflorescence, containing thousands…
Amorphophallus titanum 2
Leaf emerging, still tightly furled, nearly 2 m tall
The plant produces a single leaf at a time.
A tuber weighing 117 kg, which produced three inflorescences simultaneously in May 2006 at the Botanic Gardens, Bonn