Bukitlawang jungle trekking | rafflesia Arnoldi

                                                                                                 RAFFLESIA ARNOLDI

giant lotus rafflesia arnoldi is an obligate parasitic plant which is famous for having flowers because it is very large, even the largest flower in the world. it grows on tetrigma (Liana) tissue and has no leaves so it is unable to photosynthesize, naming this giant flower  by the history of its discovery for the first time in 1818 in the Bengkulu tropical forest (Sumatra), so that Bengkulu was known as the earth of rafflesia. and in Sumatra right in the Bukitlawang area here also besides seeing orangutans we could also see these rare flowers and here there  two places we can see this flower