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Plants regularly lose out to animals in the charisma stakes. In Pathless Forest, Chris Thorogood seeks to promote a new face of Southeast Asian conservation: Rafflesia, one of the strangest and most gruesome plants on the planet. Rafflesia is a parasitic plant, deriving everything that it needs from its host, spending most of its life
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Book review: Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World's Largest Flowers by Chris Thorogood - from HortWeek
• New study finds that most Rafflesia species, which produce the world’s largest flowers, face extinction. • Lack of protection at local, national, and international levels means that remaining populations are under critical threat. • Researchers propose an urgent action plan to save these remarkable flowers, building on local success stories.