Description Of Rafflesia Flower. To attract pollinators both produce a rotting meat scent which has earned them the nickname corpse flower. It has a very strong and unpleasant odour of decaying flesh.
It is an endemic plant that occurs only in the rainforests of sumatra island indonesia. Plants any of various tropical asian parasitic leafless plants constituting the genus rafflesia esp r. This plant is a complete parasite lacking roots stems and leaves of any kind but lives attached to its host plant with flowers visible on the surface of the host plant as the only evidence of existence of rafflesia.
In one species the flowers can be over a meter three feet across.
It contains approximately 28 species including four incompletely characterized species as recognized by willem meijer in 1997 all found in southeastern asia on the malay peninsula borneo sumatra thailand and the philippines. This plant is a complete parasite lacking roots stems and leaves of any kind but lives attached to its host plant with flowers visible on the surface of the host plant as the only evidence of existence of rafflesia. It has a very strong and unpleasant odour of decaying flesh. They are found in southeastern asia on the malay peninsula borneo sumatra thailand and the philippines.
