Rafflesia arnoldii, also known as king flower, is known as the world's largest flower. This parasitic plant has the world's largest flowers, which can grow up to three feet in diameter. Arnault's large, fleshy, multicolored flower has spots that make it look like a acne faced adolescent. It has a pungent, rancid smell, and fortunately, the parasite can only be found in Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. There is a hole in the middle of the flower that can hold 6 or 7 quarts of water. It has no stem, leaf or root.
The flower, hydroraafricana, grows in the arid desert of South Africa. It is a kind of peculiar flesh colored parasitic flower. The flower sucks on the roots of nearby shrubs. The stinking flowers attract swarms of carrion beetles. If you're walking in the Namibian desert and you smell the stench of a rotting corpse, it's not rotting meat, it's a root parasite called hydnoraafricana.
Dracunculus vulgaris has a rotten meat like odor. It has flowers and leaves, like Burgundy wine. There are many fine black branches and leaves around it. Its scientific name is aka arumdracunculus. There are also many image nicknames: "dragon shaped black taro", "vodu Lily", "snake shaped Lily", "black taro", "black dragon", "dragon shaped plant" and "stinking Lily". In Greece, it is called drakondia, just like a dragon or a poisonous snake in the flame of a Buddha. It grows in the Balkans, the Mediterranean region of Europe, Crete and Aegean islands of Greece, and southwest Turkey.
Giant konjac has a straight shape, this spectacular structure is actually its inflorescence. When it blooms in Florida's Fairchild Tropical Park, the giant konjac is six feet long. The seeds of this plant were first collected by Dr. Jim Simon during his expedition in Sumatra, Indonesia. In recent years, giant konjac blooms three times in Fairchild Tropical Park. These flowers (inflorescences) are very interesting because they can release dirty smell, which can attract carrion beetles and other pollen carriers. The smell is usually the smell of carrion. However, different kinds of smell, some of which have unique urine smell, some smell like carrion, and one smell of butyric acid. So it's often called "corpse stink flower". It's incredible that this plant can grow 6 to 7 inches a day
Valermaiseum is a strange looking tree, one of the oldest species in the world. People's previous understanding of it only comes from fossils with a history of 120 million years. In 1994, the present plants were found. Their bark is very peculiar, looks like chocolate foam, and many trunk and seemingly fern leaves spiral growth. They can grow to 125 feet.
A hundred year old leaf has only two leaves in its life. Only these two leaves will continue to grow until they become a completely different life form. The longer and thicker the stem, rather than the longer and higher, it will eventually grow to nearly 6 feet tall and 24 feet wide. Its life span is about 400 to 1500 years. Centenary leaves are believed to be a remnant of the Jurassic period in Namibia.
Dreamaglyptodon is an orchid. Its color and taste are like raw meat. Pollinated by male wasps. Drakaea is an endangered species of Orchidaceae, native to Australia. Also known as hammerorchids. The name refers to drakaea's shape and the way it moves, like a hammer. Drakaea is named after Ms. Drucker, a plant artist who separated drakaea from other plants in the 19th century to help British taxonomists remember. Drakaea plants are characterized by insect like lips attached to a narrow hinged stem. The stem is only hinged back, where a wingstock carries pollen and stigma.
Rootless duckweed is the smallest flower in the world. Twelve rootless duckweeds are just as big as the tip of a pin. Two blooming rootless duckweeds fit into a small printed letter "O". There are 9 to 11 species of Azolla, including the smallest flowering plants on earth. These aquatic plants, also known as "duckweed", are like corn flour floating on the water. Rootless duckweed is a free floating bacteria on the water, which is green or yellow green and rootless. The flower grows slowly at the top of the plant, with a stamen and a pistil. They often float on the water in pairs or form floating mats with related plants such as Azolla and duckweed.
