Facts About My Favorite Flower

• Instead of smelling sweet to attract pollinators like butterflies and bees, rafflesia flowers smell like rotting meat to attract pollinating flies!
• A species of rafflesia is the largest flower in the world, sometimes measuring over 100 centimeters in diameter!
• Instead of having its own stem and leaves like a loser, the rafflesia paristizes a vine, absorbing neutrients and water from inside the vine.
• Can be found on the back of Venusaur, my favorite Pokemon.