World’s Largest Bloom Named After Sir Stamford Raffles
The flower gets its name from British colonialist Sir Stamford Raffles. He is the founder of Singapore and first spotted the world’s largest bloom in Indonesia in the early 19th century. Ade Putra of the Conservation Agency at Agam Regency, West Sumatra said that this particular bloom of the Rafflesia tuan-mudae is the largest ever to be documented.