471K views · 6.7K reactions | A man came across a rare corpse flower in the wild while walking through a forest in Indonesia. The flower, whose scientific name is the rafflesia arnoldii, is the largest in the world and one of the rarest, as it only fully blooms for a 4-day window. It is colloquially known as a corpse flower, for the overpoweringly stinky odor it emits while mid-bloom. | NowThis | Facebook

This is one bloom you don't want to smell. Timelapse of the flower of a Rafflesia arnoldii plant opening. This plant has the largest single flower in the world. The flower has the appearance of flesh and emits a powerful stench of rotting meat. More: http://ow.ly/bVcP30d0BRT | Science Photo Library