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Biggest bloom: ‘World’s largest’ flower spotted in Indonesia

Georgia Asian Times by Georgia Asian Times
January 4, 2020
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An Indonesian man measures a seven-petal giant flower "Rafflesia arnoldii" in Padang Guci, Bengkulu on Indonesia's Sumatra island on January 17, 2018. - The giant flower "Rafflesia arnoldii", named after British stateman Stamford Raffles and a British botanist Joseph Arnold, is a rare cabbage-like flower which normally has five flower petals, found mostly in the Sumatran rain forest. (Photo by DIVA MARHA / AFP)

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Jakarta, Jan 4, 2020 ? Indonesian conservationists say they've spotted the biggest specimen ever of what's already been billed as one of the world's largest flowers.

The giant Rafflesia tuan-mudae ? a fleshy red flower with white blister-like spots on its enormous petals ? came in at a whopping 111 centimeters (3.6 foot) in diameter.

That's bigger than the previous record of 107 centimeters on a bloom also found in the jungles of West Sumatra several years ago.

“This is the largest Rafflesia tuan-mudae that has ever been documented,” said Ade Putra at the Agam Conservation Agency in Sumatra.

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It was named Rafflesia after British colonialist Sir Stamford Raffles who spotted one in Indonesia in the early 19th Century.

The species grows in several Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines where a 100 centimeter specimen was recorded.

The parasitic bloom, sometimes referred to as corpse flower, mimics the stench of rotting meat to attract insects.

Sharing that noxious smell is Indonesia's Amorphophallus titanum, a phallus-shaped flower that can reach heights of up to three meters (10 feet). – Reuters

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