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The largest individual flower on Earth is from a plant called Rafflesia arnoldii

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The largest individual flower on Earth is from a plant called Rafflesia arnoldii. Its flowers reach up to 1 metre (3 feet) in diameter and weigh around 10kg. The Rafflesia Arnoldii blossoms with all the biggest, largest and even the stinky flower in the world. In accordance with ‘Kew Royal Botanical Gardens’, this flower generated by Rafflesia arnoldii is reddish with whitish marks on its 5 flower petals; generally this flower is about three feet around as well as is visible in full bloom for just 7 days. Rafflesia arnoldii is known as corpse flower because of the odor of decomposing flesh what releases through the blossom. The reason for the bad smell created by the ‘Rafflesia arnoldii’ is usually to appeal to its main pollinator. The name of pollinator is carrion fly. The specialist Rick Gregory from the site ‘Nature Escapes’ insights these flies get to colonies to look into every single Rafflesia arnoldii searching for decomposing steak, just to be dissatisfied in orde...