The World’s Largest Flowers Smell Like Death and They’re About To Go Extinct
The 42 known species of the genus Rafflesia are under threat due to deforestation and habitat destruction.
John Divinagracia is a writer and novelist. He is the author of It’s Always Snowing in Iberia (2021) and was a fellow at the 19th Ateneo National Writers Workshop in 2022. He is a writer at WorldAtlas and a contributing editor at the Observatory. He holds a cum laude degree in creative writing from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.
The 42 known species of the genus Rafflesia are under threat due to deforestation and habitat destruction.