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11 Worst Smelling Flowers In The World

Yayınlanma: 07 July 2024 - 20:34

These plants make you dizzy with its scent. Flowers are the reproductive organs in plants. It is their job to be attractive to agents which can aid in the pollination of their seeds. That's why flowers have nectars and fragrances and bright colors- to attract pollination agents. However, there are some plants whose flowers are not so heavenly with their scent. Take a look at the world's worst smelling flowers.

Hydnora Africana: This fleshy flower, which is found in southern Africa, is known for having the appearance of female genitalia. The odor that it exudes, however, is more reminiscent of another bodily orifice. Yes, that's right: it smells like feces. It's an effective stink given that its pollinator of choice is the dung beetle. As if its reputation wasn't bad enough, Hydnora africana is also a parasitic plant that grows almost entirely underground except for its bloom. That helps explain why this organism also looks like a creature out of the movie "Tremors." Perhaps not surprisingly, its discoverer listed it as a fungus before later analysis revealed that it was, in fact, a flowering plant.
 

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