Native to Borneo and Sumatra, what is the worlds largest single flower?
The Stinking Corpse Lily This flower may be the world’s largest flower, but it will never win any beauty pageants. Besides being ugly, this flower stinks. It’s nicknamed the ‘stinking corpse lily’ because it smells like decaying flesh, so it’s not something you’d give to your girlfriend or boyfriend. You’d also get in a lot of trouble for picking this flower cuz the Rafflesia arnoldii is rare and endangered. It only grows in the rain forests of Sumatra and in the Malay Archipelago in Borneo. The Stinking Corpse Lilly isn’t exactly gonna blend in with other lillies either – it’s unique looking. Unlike most flowers, it has no leaves or stems. Instead, it grows within the woody stems of the Stinking Corpse Lily vine Tetrastigma, a relative of the grape. Occasionally a large flower bud that looks like a pale orange cabbage grows through the vine. This ‘cabbage’ becomes an enormous blossom about three feet long and weighing 25 pounds (11 kg) – that’s as heavy as a bowling ball. This giganti
