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
Rafflesia verrucosa in 1929, when it was a penal colony for major criminals. My driver on this occasion was a convicted murderer, and my guide was serving time for cannibalism." The small size and interesting morphology of "Rafflesia verrucosa" make it one of the most unusual "Rafflesia" species. It is the smallest flowered "Rafflesia" species described from Mindanao. The other two, "R. mira" and "R. schadenbergiana", are some of the largest in the genus. The epithet "verrucosa" comes from the Latin word "verruca", which means wart. This name was given due to the unique, raised warts on the lobes and diaphragm of