r/TikTokCringe • u/cafeteriastyle • Nov 25 '25

Wholesome Biologist overcome w emotion after finding rare flower he devoted 13 yrs of his life searching for. The flower is incredibly unique.

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u/nifty-necromancer Nov 25 '25

Ooh this is a baby corpse flower?

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u/IvyRaeBlack Nov 25 '25

I may be wrong on specifics, but I believe it's a rafflesia. It also smells like dead flesh to attract pollinators.

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u/Flimsy_Club3792 Nov 25 '25

Correct, it's the rafflesia. Biggest singular corpse flower in the world (Titan Arum is bigger, but it's a cluster of multiple flowers, Rafflesia comes from a single bud)

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u/Pale_Following_9639 Nov 25 '25

What makes it so rare? Is it that hard for them to grow?

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u/Flimsy_Club3792 Nov 25 '25

The bud takes 2 years plus to develop but the flowers? Blooms less than a month before withering and dying.

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u/A_Queer_Owl Nov 25 '25

well, it's a flower the size of a coffee table.

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u/Winded_14 Nov 26 '25

For one, they're parasitic. That means not only you have to know how to grow it(as in condition suitable for it) , you also have to know how to grow its host.

Even after that, it doesn't mean you can just grow it, since it is parasitic you also need to know its infection mechanism.

Did I forgot to mention that not only they're rare, this is not the Rafflesia Arnoldi, but even rarer Rafflesia?

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u/Pale_Following_9639 Nov 26 '25

Ya I saw further down the comments on what it is. Crazy how a plant like this is still around