The stench of a rare corpse flower make us retch. But you’re not the target – the plant wants to lure carrion beetles and ...

Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), Borneo ... up a club-like bud - loaded with vicious spines which protect it from plant-eating animals. On reaching the surface the bud, on its long stem, sweeps ...

Most species of the famously large Rafflesia flower, which has long captured the imagination with its enormous speckled red petals, are now at risk of extinction, a new research has warned.

You'd have to be like Indiana Jones and hack your way through a thick jungle if you want to find the rafflesia – and even then, this beautiful flower doesn’t just grow on trees, because it ...

He said the Rafflesia tengku-adlinii was named after one of Sabah’s foremost conservationists, Datuk Dr Tengku D. Z. Adlin.