Giant Stinker

foto: Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany

De Rafflesia arnoldi is niet echt geschikt als kamerplant:

All the Rafflesiaceae plants have giant flowers that smell of rotting meat, with R. arnoldii being the queen stinker. The plants probably experienced an evolutionary pressure to generate larger and larger flowers to broadcast their powerful stench to distant pollinating flies in the damp, still conditions of a tropical forest, explains Nikrent.

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