Rafflesia Flower of the Khao Sok National Park.

The Rafflesia flower are not a common plant in a typical garden or yard found the flowers can be found only in Thailand. This beautiful flower in the rain forest of Khao Sok and have a diameter of 50 cm to 90 cm and have a terrible smell of decaying matter drawing flies and insects pollination.The plant is a vine parasite Tetrastigma wild sex, but the flowers are visible. Little buds on the trunk and the roots of the host country to open after nine months, the large flowers. Dies after a week of flowering. The species seems to be that the flowers and the flowers reported only during the dry season from January to March, less likely to July.The Rafflesia is in danger. The flower is rare, of course, tourists seek in the flower for pictures with ease the transition from the host plant, or young shoots approach. So if you ever have the opportunity to see one of these extremely rare flowers, please make sure that the local step.Also to precious stones and flowers, will collect both as a delicacy, and its duties, said a doctor. A mixture of boiled shoots or flowers is used as a general tonic to fever or back pain or even to help as a sexual stimulant. However, Western medicine does not recognize medical services flower.The flower the symbol of the flower of Surat Thani province, which is the location of the Khao Sok National Park.