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Published online 11 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070108-10
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Giant stinker finds place in plant family tree
Pinning down the rotting-flesh plant could reveal the roots of gigantism.
With blooms that stink of rotting flesh and span up to a metre across, a flowering Rafflesia arnoldii is hard to miss in the tropical forests where it grows. But it has taken taxonomists nearly 200 years — since when the odd plant was first described — to find its place in the family tree.
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