Rafflesia Flower Smell Rotting Meat. “it’s hard for me to describe what it is like to see one of these flowers for the first time,” [charles davis] continues, “because they are so out of proportion from what we normally think of as a. The plants lives as a parasite on vines, but only blooms for a few days.
The flower smells a lot like rotting meat. The cabbage like head that develops, eventually opens to reveal the flower. According to the owner of the property where this flowers can be found, this particular flower bloomed overnight when he checked on it early morning but it was not the morning before.
I read this article on the corpse flower, and was intrigued by these two paragraphs.the article is very interesting if you care to read it.
Did you know there is a species of plant that is huge and smells like a rotting corpse? Firstly, the plant is unisexual, so the flower relies on its pollinators (carrion flies) for pollination. The article went on to say that the plant doesn’t have any roots or leaves; Plus, there are 28 species of this particularly putrid plant and all of them smell!