471K views · 6.7K reactions | A man came across a rare corpse flower in the wild while walking through a forest in Indonesia. The flower, whose scientific name is the rafflesia arnoldii, is the largest in the world and one of the rarest, as it only fully blooms for a 4-day window. It is colloquially known as a corpse flower, for the overpoweringly stinky odor it emits while mid-bloom. | NowThis | Facebook

The stinking corpse Lily has always been one of my favorite flowers, not only because I find its appearance delightful but also because of how fascinating it is as a plant and parasite . The Harvard journal article on it is quite good and I highly suggest the read. I wasn't even able to fit all of the fascinating biological facts I learned about it in this video. I plan on going more into the build itself in a bit of a longer video, but I was too excited not to share this short 😁🌸🪰 So may I p