Here’s the worst-smelling but biggest flower in the world

This huge bloom is notorious for its horrible odour, incomes it the nickname “corpse flower.”

Rafflesia arnoldii is believed to scent like a decaying corpse or rotting flesh, a scent that helps entice bugs to pollinate it. Nevertheless, due to its rarity and distinctive location in dense forests, these pollinators typically wrestle to search out it.

In contrast to most crops, *Rafflesia* is a parasitic plant that lacks leaves, stems, and roots. It doesn’t photosynthesise, which is the method crops use to develop utilizing daylight.

As a substitute, it depends on thread-like constructions resembling fungal cells to extract meals and water from tropical jungle vines in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.

The foul odour of Rafflesia serves to draw bugs. The plant produces a cabbage-like bud that ultimately blooms into a large, rubbery flower.

To pollinate, it secretes a sticky substance that adheres to the bugs that land on it.

This distinctive plant is at the moment going through extinction for a number of causes. One is the issue bugs have in finding it for pollination.

Moreover, human actions comparable to deforestation, bush burning, and the gathering of Rafflesia flowers from their pure habitats threaten its survival.

Researchers have categorized 42 species of Rafflesia as critically endangered, 15 as endangered, and 25 as overthreatened as a result of destruction of Southeast Asian forest habitats.