Have you ever seen a flower with a diameter of about 1 meter?
Do you feel curious about flowers that emit a rotten odor? Like a bleeding mushroom, doesn't it sound terrifying?
The Great King Flower, also known as the Raffles Flower, was named after the British explorer and naturalist Thomas Stamford who discovered it in 1818. These huge red flowers can have a maximum diameter of 1 meter and weigh 11 kilograms. When the king flower is in full bloom, it emits a foul odor like a decaying corpse. What's even more magical is that this flower emits a certain amount of heat and disguises itself as a warm animal corpse, attracting flies and several scavenger insects to spread pollen for it. That's why the king flower is also known as the corpse smelling lily.
The king flower is the largest single flower in the world. These spotted Blood red flowers are mainly grown in Sumatra and Borneo, Indonesia. As a plant, the king flower cannot undergo photosynthesis and can only parasitize on tropical vines. What's even more unique is that the king flower has no roots, stems, or leaves, and its only structure is its large flowers. Due to the destruction of the ecological environment, wild king flowers are very rare, and everyone can only appreciate this magical plant that takes 9 months from sprouting to flowering in the local botanical garden.