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  Rafflesia flower buds

 

Thailand

These football-sized flower buds, found in Khao Sok National Park in southern Thailand around the end of 2019, belong to the Rafflesia, a parasitic flower that can grow to a diameter of up to a meter and eventually bloomed in February 2020 (fig.).

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