Top 10 most rare flowers and what makes them special
8. Corpse flower – compared to rotten flesh or rotten meat, yikes
Corpse flowers are some of the most rare flowers in the world.
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Native to Sumatra, the corpse flower has had a declining population in the last 150 years due to logging and converting the plant’s native habitat into palm oil plantations.
The flower, whose botanical name is the titan arum, get’s its unfortunate nickname because of its deathly smell when it is in bloom.
The sickly odour, said to resemble rotting flesh, is produced to attract pollinators that feed on flesh.
Corpse flowers are some of the most rare flowers in the world.
Credit: commonswikimedia.org
Native to Sumatra, the corpse flower has had a declining population in the last 150 years due to logging and converting the plant’s native habitat into palm oil plantations.
The flower, whose botanical name is the titan arum, get’s its unfortunate nickname because of its deathly smell when it is in bloom.
The sickly odour, said to resemble rotting flesh, is produced to attract pollinators that feed on flesh.
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