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Rafflesia Flower

Rafflesia flower is no ordinary flower that you will find in a typical garden or backyard, this flower can only be found in Thailand. These stunning flowers are found in the Khao Sok rainforest and have a diameter of 50 to 90 cms and have a awful smell of rotten meat to attract flies for pollination.The plant is a parasite to the wild grapes of the genus Tetrastigma, but only the flowers are visible. Small buds appear along the trunk and roots of the host, which after 9 months open the giant flowers. After just one week the flower dies. The species seems to be flowering seasonally, as flowers are only reported during the dry season, from January to March, and more rarely till July.

The flower is also endangered. The flower is naturally rare, tourists trying to get close to the flower for photos easily trample the host plant or young buds. So if you do ever have the chance to come across one of these extremely rare flowers, please take care of where you step.
Also the locals collect both buds and flowers both as a delicacy as well as for its claimed medical powers.

A concoction of cooked buds or flowers is used as a general tonic, to help for fever or backache or even as a sexual stimulant. However western medicine doesn't recognize any medical power of the flower.The flower is the symbol flower of Surat Thani Province, which is the location of the Khao Sok National Park.