The smell is used to attract flies which pollinate the flower.
The Carrion Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) also known as the Titan arum has the scent of rotting flesh to attract the corpse beetles and flesh flies that pollinate it.
The Carrion Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) also known as the Titan arum has the scent of rotting flesh to attract the corpse beetles and flesh flies that pollinate it.
Scent in any bloom attracts pollinators. The carrion scent attracts flies which are the pollinators.
***Possible Answer:***The fly is attracted by the "carrion " smell of the Rafflessia flowers, it carries the pollen on its body as it flies from flower to flower, thus helping to pollinate them.
i really dont know :) The smell is produces to attract the flies that pollinate it.
Carrion flowers, like Raffelsia, which attarct flies for pollination are examples of flower that smell bad
Scent in any bloom attracts pollinators. The carrion scent attracts flies which are the pollinators.
Carrion flowers are pollenated by flies and other insects that are attracted to rotting meat. So the plant shares its pollen.
The sources of the flowers' 'stinky' scent are not fully identified, partly due to the extremely low concentration of the compounds (5 to 10 parts per billion). Dimethyl sulfides, including disulfide and trisulfide have been detected in Amorphophallus.
They smell as they do to attract the flies that pollinate them.
yeah horrible smell
yes. they smell horrible