Huge Highlighted News: The largest specimen of the world's largest flower was found in Indonesia
This flower attains a diameter of about one meter (3 feet) can weight up to 7 kilogram (15.5 pounds).
Indonesian conservationists say they have found the largest specimen that has already been billed as one of the largest flowers in the world. Huge Rafflesia tuan-mudae - The red flower of the flesh has white skin-like stains that form on its huge petal - 111 centimeters (3.6 ft) in diameter.
That is much larger than the previous record of 107 cm, if found many years ago in the foothills of West Sumatra. "This is the largest rafflesia tuan - mudae ever documented," said Ade Putra of Sumatra's Agam conservation agency.
He added the flower would be only about a week before it rotted. It was named Rafales after Sir Stamford Ruffles, a British colonialist who found it in Indonesia in the early nineteenth century. This species grows in many Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines, where a 100 cm sample was recorded.
Parasitic flowers, sometimes known as corpse flowers, mimic the smell of rotten flesh to attract insects. The noxious odor is Indonesia's Amorphophallus Titanium, a phallus-shaped flower that can grow up to three meters (10 feet) high.