World Largest Flowers Are Facing Extinction

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The largest flowers in the world are of the Rafflesia genus which are now put under the extinction category.

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Its life cycle is so unpredictable that botanic garden cultivators have struggled in cultivating them.

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The flower smells like rotten flesh to attract flies.

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From there Rafflesia got its nickname corpse flower.

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It is totally unpredictable to find when the flower will bloom and mixed with its lifecycle makes rafflesia a plant hard to cultivate.

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Scientists have discovered 42 kinds of rafflesia species.

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Most of the time they are in the form of invasive filaments living on forest vines.

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And when the blooming time comes it blooms out of the vine in the form of a massive flower.

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Because of all these one Rafflesia species Rafflesia magnifica is categorized as an endangered species by IUCN.

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