Starfish cactus, South Africa: The plant is also known scientifically as Stapelia Grandiflora is a stable plant that grows in South Africa. Its flowers are large and star-shaped, and their roots can reach a depth of more than 30 cm, blooming in late summer and early autumn, and the flower smells unpleasant to attract insects for pollination.
Rafflesia arnoldii, Indonesia: Herpeslia has the largest flower in the world, with huge red petals. The plant, which has no visible leaves or roots, is extremely rare and grows in the Borneo rainforests in Malaysia and Sumatra in Indonesia. It can reach a height of almost a meter and weighing 8 kg, and when it blooms, it smells like bad meat, but this smell attracts the insects that break it.
The corpse flower, Indonesia. This flower reaches a height of between 2-3.5 meters and can weigh up to 85 kg The flower is made up of a yellow fleshy thorn and also distributes a terrible smell to attract the insects, hence its nickname "Corpse Flower." The flower grows in the rain forests of West Sumatra, And this is only every five to ten years.
Rusty bleeding tooth fungus, Europe and North America: The name derives from the fact that thick red fluid comes out of the pores of the plant and resembles blood. The plant grows mostly in forests throughout Europe and North America. It is easy to recognize when he is young, but as he gets older the fungus becomes dark and hard to detect. In spite of the sight, it is an eating mushroom, although it has a particularly bitter taste.
Pelican flower, Central America and the Caribbean: This flower looks like a giant trumpet, and though it resembles a rose, it has no sweet smell but more reminiscent of rotten meat. The stink did not last long because the rash lasted only two days. On the day of flowering, the flower is in its female stage that attracts the flies through the scent. The next day, the flower moves to the masculine stage and the smell disappears.
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Strange and beautiful flower.
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Hey Mate, check out the gympie gympie tree. While it's not a flower it is most certainly... intriguing.
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/