Carrion flowers are pollenated by flies and other insects that are attracted to rotting meat. So the plant shares its pollen.
The smell is used to attract flies which pollinate the flower.
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.
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.
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
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.
They smell as they do to attract the flies that pollinate them.
The corpse flower, known scientifically as Rafflesia arnoldii, is not carnivorous. It is a parasitic plant that derives its nutrients from host vines instead of capturing and digesting animals. The flower is famous for its foul odor, which resembles rotting flesh, and this smell attracts pollinators like carrion beetles and flies, but it does not consume them.
I do not believe they do. However they make a rotting smell.
no you use greantant musels to smell a flower