The Weirdest Parasite on Earth

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  @countchocula1250 · 2 years ago

  imagine deciding that photosynthesis isn't useful 💀

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• AL

  @alexthetiger96 · 3 years ago

  So this must be the flower that the Pokemon Vileplume is based on. It's always fascinating to see the real world connections.

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• DA

  @dannyU2g · 3 years ago

  Damn, props to the dudes who found it for not burning the whole forest down after lol

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• DA

  @Darkflowerchyld718 · 3 years ago

  There's a preserved Rafflesia on display at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan that never ceases to amaze me. I'm a small statured woman and this flower is more than half my size. I've always appreciated the fact that it's no longer smelly though I have always wondered how bad it truly smells.

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• WI

  @williejackson6905 · 1 year ago

  Imagine being somewhere humid & all of a sudden you start smelling rotten cheese mixed with sweat, garlic & decomposed meat

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• TH

  @theNightScythe · 3 years ago

  Well... Learning that they are Parasitic, makes Vileplume from Pokémon even more interesting

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• RI

  @rirururu4697 · 3 years ago

  I learned about these flowers in animal crossing. If you neglect your town long enough then these things start growing and making its own ecosystem.

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• SU

  @sulaymanfaghirzadah8680 · 3 years ago

  I learned about this flower on a school trip, you could press a button to smell it, and i had that smell stuck in my body and lungs for an entire hour. The smell and size were the only two/2 things i knew about this flower.

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• AK

  @akii.bratva · 2 years ago

  Whenever I learn about a parasitic insect I hate them with all my guts, but for some reason when the parasite is a plant, I'm just thinking "you go girl"

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• DA

  @dahvyd5768 · 2 years ago

  "1m, roughly the size of a 7 year old child" american using anything but the metric system to measure will always amaze me😂

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• JA

  @James4theDoctor · 3 years ago

  Thank you for this information about Vileplume!

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• KH

  @khem6up · 2 years ago

  Can’t fool me, That’s a vileplume.

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