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That they need to attract pollinating beetles or flieswith this particular scent is why certain flowers smell like rotten meat.

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The name of the flower that smells like rotting meat is the Carrion flower.

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because insects or animals that come up to it stink or have a ordor

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none, Arisemae is a rotten meat smelling plant, but it does not eat insects, the smell is to lure in pollinating flies to it, not to devour or eat the flies.

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They are pollinated by insects that like bad odors like flies and scavengers. But like all flowers they can be pollinated by the wind and by water.

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Flowers with a rotting pungent meat odor attract flies, which pollinate them.

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