Have you ever seen a rafflesia? It is the largest flower Earth. A rafflesia can be 1 meter across.There are more than twenty different of rafflesia, and they are all very rare. They grow only in indonesia,the philippines and Malaysia. The rafflesia plant has no roots,stems or leavas. It takes the food and water it needs from its host plant, which is usually a forest vine. Rafflesia flowers do not smell good. They smell like bad meat. The strange smell is very importhant because it attracts the insects that help the plant to reproduce.
The flower stays open of one week.Then it dies,leaving behind a small pool of black liquid. Many years ago, the rafflesia flowers were sold in markets to people who bought them to make medicine.Now there are so few rafflesia plants that you will be very lucky if you ever see one.