Stinkiest flower in the world?

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  1. pete28

    pete28 Seedling

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    I saw this thing on good morning america i think yesterday and this flower was huge! They said I think it was the biggest one in the world. It was so pretty but I guess not a lot of them exist. Does anyone know what type of flower it is?
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I've heard that the flower smells like really rotting corpse..but it doesn't look the picture linked. Does it look like this? It pollinates with the help of flies so it smells like the rotting flesh to attract flies.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/410763.stm
     
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    gardenmamma that is the one. Are they hard to find? SOmeone said they are very rare and hard to grow?
     

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