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Rafflesia kerrii is a holoparasitic flowering plant with no leaves, stems or roots of its own; it lives inside wild vines of the genus Tetrastigma and produces a huge, foul-smelling red flower. It cannot be grown in a garden or as a houseplant.
Rafflesia kerrii is a member of the genus Rafflesia of the small parasitic family Rafflesiaceae. It is found in the rainforest of southern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia, with notable populations in Khao Sok National Park and Khlong Phanom National Park. Local Thai names are บัวผุด (bua phut), ย่านไก่ต้ม (yan kai tom) and บัวตูม (bua tum).
The red flowers typically have a diameter of 50–90 cm (19+1⁄2–35+1⁄2 in) and smell awfully of rotten meat to attract flies for pollination. This species has some claim to being the world's largest flower, for although the average size of R. arnoldii is greater than the average R. kerrii, there have been two recent specimens of R. kerrii of exceptional size; one specimen found in the Lojing Highlands of peninsular Malaysia on 7 April 2004 by Prof. Dr.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rafflesia kerrii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
