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Largest flower in the world smells like rotten fish; Man stumbles upon parasitic 'corpse flower' in Indonesian forest in viral video

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While trekking in an Indonesian forest, a man stumbled upon a rare flower with a stinky odour. Popularly known as a 'corpse flower', the carnivorous bloom smells like a rotten fish to attract insects. The name of the world's largest flower is Rafflesia arnoldii which is species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia. The video of the bloom was shared online, which has made netizens shocked.


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