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Worlds Largest and Smelliest Flowers and Plants

While flowers typically attract humans and insects alike with their enchanting beauty and luscious fragrance, some rather perverse stinking flowers entice flesh and fecal-loving insects to their foul-smelling blooms in the guise of meat by their colors and fetid scents, which include some of the largest and most bizarre flowers in the world.

Rafflesia arnoldii

Amorphophallus — Titan Arum
The world’s tallest flower — which is actually a cluster of flowers — is the Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanium), about 10 feet (3 meters) tall fully-grown, also commonly referred to as the “corpse flower.”

Corypha umbraculifera — Talipot palm

Carrion or Stinking Flowers

Stapelia — Star Flower

The petals are covered with soft white hairs, resembling a layer of mold growing on rotting matter.

Stapelia are commonly known by various other names including Starfish Flower, Star Cactus, Giant Toad Flower, Zulu Giant and in Australia it’s called the Dead Horse Plant.