11 Worst Smelling Flowers In The World

Yayınlanma: 07 July 2024 - 20:34

These plants make you dizzy with its scent. Flowers are the reproductive organs in plants. It is their job to be attractive to agents which can aid in the pollination of their seeds. That's why flowers have nectars and fragrances and bright colors- to attract pollination agents. However, there are some plants whose flowers are not so heavenly with their scent. Take a look at the world's worst smelling flowers.

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Stapelia Gigantea: (Zulu Giant, carrion plant and toad plant) is native to the desert regions of South Africa to Tanzania. it is a clump-forming succulent, which named by great Carolus Linnaeus to honor the Dutch botanist Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel (1602-1636). It grows up to 20 cm (8 in) tall and erect green stems 3 cm (1.2 in) thick. The blooms are large star-shaped five-petalled flowers up to 25 cm (9.8 in) in diameter. The flowers are red and yellow, wrinkled, with a silky texture and fringed with hairs, that can be as long as 8 mm (0.3 in). They bloom in autumn, triggered by the shorter daylight hours.