World's BIGGEST Flowers! (World's Most Spectacular Plants episode 2 of 14)

At least a quarter of a million species of flowering

plants

have been discovered and named so far and within this bewildering diversity,

flowers

come in all shapes, colors and sizes, but what are the largest

flowers

in the

world

? This is the guy or Tom Cory feh boom Dracula. Farah, this palm produces the

world

's largest floral scape that can grow up to eight meters long and have literally millions of tiny flowers along its length. Well this is impressive, the flowers are very small, so I think we can do better in our search. The largest flowers in the world There are many ways to classify the blues, some of a single flower that grow alone while others consist of many small flowers that together form a unified floor of structure in terms of individual flowers, the largest in the world belonged to parasitic

plants

called rafflesia that grow in the rainforests of Asia I am in West Sumatra, Indonesia, looking for giant rafflesia flowers for the forest.

These amazing flowers were discovered 200 years ago, but bloom very infrequently, but are still relatively little known in recent times. This week I have been sending guides and porters in all directions through the jungle to try to look for developing flowers and talk to the villagers to see if there are any open flowers and so far they have all tested negative, however the only contact from last night. I came back and said that there is a flower open in this forest and it is not just any rafflesia, it is the largest of all the rafflesia arnoldii. I am the largest member of the genus and possibly the largest flower in the world and it is blooming right over here.

I have dreamed of seeing giants. flower on the wall and yes, to release it, the flowers are red, so it is not easy to find. Wow, look at this, this is rafflesia arnoldii. I'm the

biggest

flower in the world and let's measure it, it's about 65 70 centimeters wide that you can get. a little larger thereafter it is known to be between 80 and 85 centimeters and some reports suggest even more than a meter in diameter, but it is still an incredible flower and must look like a corpse, but it has a rather unpleasant secret. Rafflesia flowers imitate the rotting bodies of dead animals, you can see it, it consists of five petals that are bright orange and warty, it must look like carrion and inside it has hairs like the corpse of some animal and if I smell it it has a strong smell of rotting meat, it's pretty incredible. this fellow has an amazing life cycle, it is actually a parasite, it has no leaves, it exists as a network of fibrous tissues within a vine called a tetrastigma vine and from time to time it develops buds, the buds develop for about nine months to a year and then it suddenly opens up forming this incredible bloom, but the bloom itself lasts only six to seven days, then it dies and rots in exactly the same forests of Sumatra, another giant flower grows that is even more hard to see than the rafflesia.

This plant is called morph. a phallus titanum or titan arum Lily the enormous flowers of this species are larger than those of rafflesia but it is not a single flower but is made up of many small flowers like rafflesia the giant flowers of the titan arum also last only a few days then they wither and they die, so it is very difficult to see them in the wild. A friend in Sumatra let me know that this giant flower bud was about to open, so I jumped on a plane and flew to Sumatra as fast as I could.

Rafflesia, the titan arum, also uses smell as a mechanism to attract pollinators. The fact that these giant flowers evolved side by side is a testament to the power of scent as an attractant, since in these dense rainforests visual cues like petals are not very effective, as a scent can travel on a large scale. . The distances floated even in the weakest jungle breeze. I can honestly say that I have waited my entire life to see this giant flower and bloom in the wild and I can barely contain myself with the excitement of looking for it and there is the titan arum mini and it absolutely stinks, I can already smell it from here, let's go see it.

Wow, this is bigger than I ever imagined. It took me a day or two flying to Sumatra to reach this flower and unfortunately I think it was a little past its prime, the petals. It had already started to age and curve inward, but it was still very impressive. The largest ever recorded measured 3.73 meters tall. This specimen is not that big, but let's find out how big it is. It's so big I can't even reach it. The top is approximately 3 meters high. This flower has a really complicated pollination mechanism and that partly explains the gigantic size of the structure.

Inside there are two fans of male and female flowers. The female flowers open first and become receptive. the pollen then wither and die and then and only then the florets of the male flowers release their pollen because those of the femur have already withered and are no longer receptors. The flower cannot pollinate itself but this gigantic structure has the solution to that problem. here in the middle it is called paddocks and it works like a giant chimney, it releases meaning and if you smell it up close, it absolutely stinks like rotten meat or rotten fish and in fact it is known locally here in Indonesia, it is the corpse flower that keeps this chimney. it stands up on its own and takes it away and sweats it like a chimney and that's extremely important because the nearest open flower is like this one, but you're miles away so it's crucial that the flower sends it along and wide to catch pollinators while you observe this giant flower.

I could see that this scent attraction mechanism was working well, many flies were buzzing around the flower, perhaps they were attracted and flew from miles away from the nearest flower to allow cross pollination. The leaves of the titan arum are produced in the same way. an impressive scale as the flowers each leaf can be the size of a small tree and often last a year or more by slowly filtering the energy of sunlight by storing it in the huge underground tuber a single titan arum plant can wait several years before being stored gathered enough energy to produce another al

most

unbelievably gigantic bloom these diverse rainforests on the island of Sumatra a home for a third, much less known giant flower called Amorphophallus gigas a friend named Brad Wilson was lucky enough to see one of these giant flowers in In the wild, the flowers can be as tall as a streetlamp, but they are even rarer than refugium and titan arum and are even less predictable in terms of when they may bloom.

Unfortunately, I was not lucky enough to see an open flower in the world, but a friend. on the island of Java please let me know when one was about to bloom in this garden and this is Amorphophallus gigas, this is the tallest flower in the entire Aran family, from the base to this gigantic scale, this flower stands tall More than three meters high, but plants with flowers of more than five meters have been recorded in the world. Amorphophallus Geass works exactly like the titan arum as a chimney, but here the greater height allows the flower to distribute its aroma evenly. more efficient and like the titan. arum I saw a lot of flies attracted to the flowering, believe it or not, both titan arum and Amorphophallus gigas can be grown at home, although you will need a very large pot and a very large growing space with warm temperatures and high humidity, but both species can be made to flower in captivity is if Captain II recently flowered a titan arum in his Paradiso nursery in Australia this is my multiple titanium which we call small the titan became famous in December 2016 when it produced a flower bud that grew Up to 1.8 meters high and 1.1 meters wide, it became an Internet sensation, all the television stations came to see it and thousands of people visited it over a three-day period, which is understandable, although The largest flowers in the world may not be suitable for everyone, the titan arum has a smaller size. relative that is very fun and easy to grow at home there is one right around here this one is more for phallus Cognac also known as the devil's tongue because of this big dot that Hispanics in the middle send to look like the tongue of a devil or a monster this plant is It is actually very easy to grow at home, all you need is a large pot to grow it, which means a well prepared substrate and ideally a place where it is not exposed to direct sunlight.

It likes some shade and surprisingly can even be grown. Out in the UK it can survive light shocks and a bit of snow, as long as the corn is deep enough in the ground to not freeze. It is very interesting because it does not even need a pot to flower. It blooms when the corn is like this, when it blooms the flower will die, then the corn will produce roots and then it will produce a single huge leaf for the season. It will take a few years for your plant to grow enough to flower, but it is worth it. you