The largest flower in the plant kingdom

I like to share these curiosities of nature, linked of course to our affinity in common: flowers, gardens and gardening.

Here is a curious plant, which due to the size of the flower that you see in the image taken from turisku.com, has earned the reputation of possessing "the world's largest flower. The scientific name for this species and was discovered by the team confirmed ago by Dr. Sir Stamford Raffles and the naturalist Joseph Arnold.




His lineage (or genetic kinship with other species, to put it more clearly), has been the subject of some controversy over several centuries. The reason is that their lifestyle is a parasite (not own roots or leaves), but with the peculiarity of being a parasite incapable of photosynthesis itself.



A professional team of Harvard University, the University of Southern Illinois, the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Wisconsin, conducted extensive studies, under the coordination [on general senior researcher Charles C. Davis.

Asmobrará I know they have found certain genetic relationships, with species as diverse as the Poinsettia, Castor and the Higuereta or rubber trees.