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The corpse flower is one of the weirdest and most amazing plants in the world! It grows a giant flower that can be taller than a grown-up, sometimes reaching over ten feet high. But instead of smelling sweet like a rose, it has a terrible stinky smell!

The super stinky smell is actually a very smart trick. It attracts flies and beetles that love smelly things, and those bugs help the plant make seeds. The flower actually heats itself up to spread the stink even farther! The corpse flower comes from the rainforests of Sumatra in Indonesia.