Rafflesia Park where the flowers are numbered and monitored by the park rangers. "Rafflesia" are also remarkable for showing a large horizontal transfer of genes from their host plants. This is well known among bacteria, but not higher organisms. The name "corpse flower" applied to "Rafflesia" can be confusing because this common name also refers to the titan arum ("Amorphophallus titanum") of the family Araceae. Moreover, because "Amorphophallus" has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence, it is sometimes mistakenly credited as having the world's largest flower. Both "Rafflesia" and "Amorphophallus" are flowering plants, but they are only distantly related. "Rafflesia arnoldii" has
Leonard Co without submitting a thesis. Co worked as a museum researcher at the University of the Philippines Institute of Biology, and as a senior botanist at the Conservation International-Philippines. Co was the founding president of the Philippine Native Plants Conservation Society. and received credit for discovering eight new species of plants. Aside from these, two species of Philippine endemic plants have been named in his honor: the "Mycaranthes leonardi" orchid and the "Rafflesia leonardi", a parasitic plant species of the genus Rafflesia endemic to the Philippines and known for bearing the third largest flower in the world. A year before his