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Isn't the "Corpse Flower" actually the titan arum? I'm just confused, because I know both smell highly of rotting meat, but I was pretty sure only the titan arum was considered "The Corpse Flower"... 24.67.253.203 11:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Somebody who knows how should make this disambiguate to Amorphophallus_titanum as well, which is another flower that stinks like rotten meat and have the name Corpse Flower
I believe the titan arum is also called "dead horse arum"
Sorry, I was wrong about titan arum being called "dead horse arum". It is the Helicodiceros muscivorus that is called so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.180.125.242 ( talk • contribs)
What is the origin of the name? Is it named for the thief, or the hotel, or for someone else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.26.98.90 ( talk • contribs)
The plant with the world's largest flower -- typically a full meter across, with a bud the size of a basketball -- evolved from a family of plants whose blossoms are nearly all tiny, botanists write this week in the journal Science. Their genetic analysis of rafflesia reveals that it is closely related to a family that includes poinsettias, the trees that produce natural rubber, castor oil plants, and the tropical root crop cassava. --
Meika
20:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
There is a little succulent which produces similar (though much smaller) flowers, rotten smell and all (though fishy rather than meaty). I've seen them growing in Spain. Can anyone identify it? Drutt 21:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/315/5820/1812
it's be nice to see what these strange flowers look like when photographed with an object of absolutely discernable size seeing as i cannot read nor interpret metric worth two damns XD. Murakumo-Elite ( talk) 08:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
The article says "Even the smallest species, R. manillana, has 20 cm diameter flowers". Is this species really the smallest one?
From other sources on the net:
"Rafflesia manillana is an attractive species with a flower diameter of up to 24 cm."
"R. mira (29 cm in diameter), is much larger than R. speciosa (18-20 cm) of Antique Province, and definitely larger than Luzon’s R. manillana (14-20 cm in diameter)."
"What could be the smallest Rafflesia in the Philippines (measuring 12-13 cm in diameter) was recently discovered in Mt. Asog in Camarines Sur,. The researchers from the Camarines Sur State Agricultural College who discovered it has proposed the species be named Rafflesia irigaenses."
"Rafflesia baletei is the smallest (9-22 cm in diameter) Rafflesia ever measured." 80.202.40.85 ( talk) 05:37, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
[1] could be used in this article. -- Cirt ( talk) 15:36, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
i am not sure of what species i see in tiaong but it would be fascinating to find out. you can walk among lightly wooded areas of the town and see about five to ten flowers in an area of ten square meters. sad to say, people here feed the flowers to pigs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.198.78.207 ( talk) 19:30, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
The citation #10 (^ "Rafflesia verrucosa (Rafflesiaceae), a new species of small-flowered Rafflesia from Mindanao, Philippines". Phytotaxa 10: 49-57. September 2010.) links to a PDF on a password-protected access only site. 203.82.95.107 ( talk) 17:30, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Etymologically, the common name "corpse flower" is clearly an invention by Wikipedia, based on an old incorrect website. The first attestation of this name was in this legacy website, 2003 version. To quote: "Most flowers in the genus give off and smell of rotting flesh, hence its local name of corpse flower. This statement is incorrect, as far as I know. On 7 May 2003, this uncited text was copied to Wikipedia: "The flower smells like rotting meat, hence its local name translates to corpse flower". Soon afterwards, someone added the invented name "meat flower" to this sentence. Soon (see talk), someone correctly noted that the name "corpse flower" was actually generally used for Amorphophallus (including in Malay, btw), and added a paragraph of text disambiguating this (instead of deleting it). Over the following years the text ended up at the top of the article, and eventually the original sentence was removed, so that this remained in the lede of the article by 2010: "The name "corpse flower" applied to Rafflesia...". News organisations and popular websites started adopting the name from Wikipedia after this point. By now, dozen of articles appear a year using this name, all based on Wikipedia.
What to do about this? Confusion and inexpertise by Wikipedia editors must be cited is the source of the modern English common name. Name cannot just be deleted, people will re-add it. Cat is sort of out of the bag now... Hundreds of articles are using it now. Leo Breman ( talk) 20:00, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
... I doubt that name came from Wikipedia and honestly I doubt it came from that website. Guinness currently refers to R. arnoldii as the "corpse flower", and to be honest, the reason I looked is I thought I remembered the name alongside a black-and-white printed picture of a Rafflesia flower in an edition from the 1980s... I no longer have the paper book, but before I claimed it was from a 2003 website I'd definitely want to find a copy of the Guinness book of world records which antedates that.
Largest single flower — Preceding
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[2] Has some new info I guess. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D ( talk) 02:45, 22 April 2021 (UTC)