The most terrible flower in the world

Rafflesia arnoldi, also known as the Great King, is the largest, heaviest, rarest and most fragrant flower in the world.

The name of this "giant" flower is named after two British colonial founders in Singapore Stamford Raffles and James Arnold. Both of them once explored Indonesian jungle in 1818. The world's largest flower weighs about 10kg and reaches a diameter of 1 meter when fully expanded.

Two royal flowers were discovered in Taba Penanjung Nature Reserve, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia. Two flowers are nearly ten meters apart and hatch at the same time.

The king's flower is the flower of a parasite. This tree does not have leaves and stems but roots are deeply rooted in the host plant. Only when the shoots appear on the host plant can the plants be seen with the naked eye. It takes 9-12 months for new shoots to grow to the size of a large cabbage and then into a flower. This development took place at midnight during the rainy season.

Flowers smell very hard to smell but oddly, attract a lot of bees, butterflies, insects. However, only 20-30% of shoots grow into flowers. Very rarely female and male flowers bloom at the same time. United Kingdom also found in tropical forests in Malaysia, Java, southern Thailand and southern Philippines.