Growing the world's largest flower 🌺😯 #Flower #Plant #Rafflesia | Great Big Story

The world's largest flower 🌸 Rafflesia is a parasitic plant that spends most of its life cycle within its host, a tropical vine, emerging only to bloom. Its flowers are the largest in the world, spanning up to a metre. Despite this, little is known about its life cycle, and it is almost impossible to grow. Chris Thorogood and colleagues went in search of the elusive flowering plant in the hope that what they learned, could help save this plant for the future. https://www.newscientist.com/articl

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