8 of the Biggest Flowers on Earth

Monster Flower (Rafflesia Arnoldii)

Among all the big flowers, Rafflesia Arnoldi produces the greatest flowering. Originally from the tropical forests of Malaysia and Indonesia, where it is one of the three national flowers, the so-called “monster flower” can reach three feet in diameter and weigh up to 15 pounds.

More than its size, however, Raffle is known for its perfume. He sometimes shares the common name “Fleur de corpse” with another giant flowering, Amorphophallus titanumBecause they both shake rotten meat – an adaptation they have developed to attract flies, which helps pollinate plants. The monster flower only grows on the tendrils of Tetrastigma Vine, who in turn only grows in the virgin tropical forest. This means that the habitat of unusual flowering disappears quickly.

Corpse flower (amorphophallus titanum)

The conferences of a title of “larger flower” is not always as simple as to measure the petals or the diameter of a single flower. Indeed, Amorphophallus titanum—Having an inflorescence that can increase by 10 feet high – is not low by any definition. But unlike RaffleThis large gem of the tropical forest is made up of hundreds of small buds on a single rod.

Originally from Sumatra, Indonesia, the corpse flower remains rare there but is now cultivated in gardens around the world. However, these flowers remain infrequent in nature and captivity. As Raffle,, Amorphophallus titanum Also attracts pollinators with the smell of rotten meat, so the two fight for the nickname “corpse flower” and the “largest flower” superlative.

Talipot Palm (Corypha Umbraculifera)

Capable of cultivating more than 80 feet high, Corypha umbraculifera –Better known as “Palm Talipot” – is the largest flower plant with branched inflorescence. This simply means that instead of budding a single stem, the flowers of the Talipot bud of tiny branches attached to the main rod. They appear like soft, golden and fan -shaped leaves at the top of a palm trunk. The inflorescence of the Talipot can alone increase between 19 and 26 feet long. He usually flowers at the end of his life, about 80 years old, producing a spectacular display.

This gargantuan palm is from India and Sri Lanka and is also cultivated throughout Southeast Asia, China and the Andaman Islands.

Tremble tremble (pando)

Trembling trees are technically with deciduous leaves, but they make flowers, but rarely. Although their elusive flowers are quite small, the plant itself can be massive. Maybe the best example is PandoA clonal colony of a single male tree thought to cover 107 acres in Utah. More than 47,000 trees, or rods, have germinated in a single root system which would weigh around 13 million pounds and is over 80,000 years old. Who is Pando One of the oldest living organisms in the world in addition to being one of the greatest.

The tremor tremor also has the widest natural range of any North American tree, covering 47 degrees of latitude, 110 degrees of longitude (nine time zones) and sea level elevations to the wood line.

Grass Neptune (Posidonia Oceanica)

Even the trembling tremble cannot correspond to the size or age of PosidoniaHowever. This flower grass which proliferates in the Mediterranean Sea and off the coast of Australia grows in clonal colonies. It even produces a fruit and reproduces by means of seeds.

Such a colony, discovered in the Mediterranean in 2006, is several kilometers wide and would have hundreds of thousands of years. Overall, the marine “flower” also known as the Neptune grass covers an area of ​​around 15,000 square miles in the Mediterranean. It plays a key role in the absorption and storage of carbon dioxide, but it is currently threatened by the increase in water temperatures. It forms a thick meadow on the bottom of sand without depth than 130 feet.

Sunflower (Helianthus Annius)

In the United States, at least, sunflowers are one of the most famous flower giants. While other botanical giants are limited to distant tropical forests and in the occasional botanical garden, the common sunflower presents its oversized inflorescence everywhere in states. These flowers are from the Americas and were domesticated around 1,000 BC, the oil from their seeds continues to be a basic harvest.

When they are given room, sun and ample water, these sun reissue flowers can reach 30 feet high and have more than one foot in diameter. The heads generally contain flowers from 13 to 30 shelves and hundreds (sometimes thousands) of disc flowers.

Queen of Andes (Puya Raimondii)

The largest bromeliad – a group of thousands of plants from tropical and subtropical America – was nicknamed the Queen of the Andes for her tendency to send a 30 feet high flower rod in the middle of the snowy mountains. The University of California botanical garden says that this plant can establish up to 12 million seeds and produce thousands of flowers, but only when it reaches about 80 to 100 years. Unfortunately, he dies after flowering, as most bromeliaceae do – although flowers can last several years before it happened.

THE Puya Raimondii Performs in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia, generally no less than 13,000 feet above sea level. Due to threats caused by the grazing of cattle, damage following the fire, the narrowing of populations affecting the rates of germination and climate change affecting the capacity of the plant to flower, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) threatened.

Amazon Water Lily (Victoria Amazonica)

Victoria Amazonica is the largest organism of the Lys d’eau, the Nymphaeacae, its stamp reaching eight feet in diameter. Originally from the tropical regions of South America – like Guyana, where they are the national flower – these enormous lily lilies grow better in lukewarm water even more than 70 degrees. With their unprecedented size also comes an impressive force: the largest pads can bear the weight of a small child (up to 65 pounds).

The underside of the leaves is covered with small sharp thorns which defend it against fish and other herbivores which could attack below. They also serve to crush rival plants and clearly the surrounding space to maximize growth.

While their flowers the size of a football ball are a spectacle to see – flowers the size of an imagine white balloon that smell pineapple – they are elusive, appearing exclusively at night and only for a few days. Flowers can take up to 48 hours to open.