Rafflesia (/ rəˈfliːz (i) ə, - ˈfliːʒ (i) ə, ræ -/), [2] or stinking corpse lily, [3] is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. [4] . The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants; one species has the largest flower in the world.

The flower’s color is reddish or purplish brown, sometimes in a mottled pattern, with the sex organs in a central cup. The fruit is a berry containing sticky seeds thought to be disseminated by fruit-eating rodents. Other members of the genus have a similar reproductive biology.

Rafflesia is a genus of about 42 species of parasitic plants native to Southeast Asia. All species are parasitic upon the roots of Tetrastigma vines and live almost entirely within the host plants. One species, Rafflesia arnoldii, has the largest-known flower in the world.

Fruit: Indehiscent or irregularly dehiscent fleshy berry, with numerous small seeds. Rafflesia requires 6 -8 months for the blackish-brown fruit to mature. Fruit/Seed Dispersal: Fruits of Rafflesia are eaten by squirrels (Callosciurus) and tree shrews (Tupaia) which implicates them as the seed dispersers (Nais 1992). A wider range of ...

Seeds harvested from fertile fruit may serve as a possible method to propagate Rafflesia spp. This paper provides a brief synthesis on what is known about research related to Rafflesia spp.

What does the fruit of a Rafflesia look like? The flower’s colour is reddish or purplish brown, sometimes in a mottled pattern, with the sex organs in a central cup. The fruit is a berry containing sticky seeds thought to be disseminated by fruit-eating rodents.

Rafflesia produces the largest single flowers in the world, at the expense of its host vine, Tetrastigma, yet it begins as an inconspicuous endophyte. It is unknown how the Rafflesia seed gets into the host and germinates. Multiple locals claim to have successfully grown the holoparasitic flower from seeds resulting in blooms.

2021年3月3日 · Flower and fruit development of Rafflesia consueloae were studied between February 2014 and April 2016 in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. Flower development was divided into five...

1991年6月1日 · The Rafflesia fruit was considered a berry (Emmons et al. 1991) probably because of the fleshy endocarp and numerous seeds. However, it was observed that the R. consueloae fruit was dehiscent...

2020年1月8日 · Does Rafflesia have fruit? The plant cannot grow in captivity, and, as most occurrences of Rafflesia contain only male or female flowers, pollinations is rare. If pollination does occur, the flower produces a smooth-skinned fruit, which is actually a …