Saturday 31 December 2011

Rafflesia arnoldi

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Big flowers, small flowers, fragrant flowers or stinky flowers they all care about just one thing, the thing that they are born to do -  bear fruits.  I'm fascinated even by the humblest  dandelions; while most people weed them out , I wait for them to bloom, of course, I'm  then faced with  a 'weeding' problem.

The  world's largest flower may  smell like  rotting flesh but that won't stop me from being in awe. 
Found only in the rainforests of Indonesia , this rare  flower measures 3ft in diameter and weighs around 11kg  and  smells like rotting flesh. People fondly  call   Rafflesia Arnoldi  the 'corpse flower'.
                                 

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