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The name 'durian' is derived from the Malay word duri ('thorn'), a reference to the numerous prickly thorns on its rind, combined with the noun-building suffix -an. [5] [6] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the alternate spelling durion was first used in a 1588 translation of The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof by the Spanish explorer Juan ...
A foul smell of rotting meat attracts flies and beetles. To pollinate successfully, the flies and/or beetles must visit both the male and female plants, in that order. The fruit produced are round berries filled with numerous minute seeds. The flies Drosophila colorata, Chrysomya megacephala and Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis visit the late flowers.
Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae.It has a large unbranched inflorescence; a tall single leaf, branched like a tree; and a heavy tuber which enables the plant to produce the inflorescence.
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Rafflesia (/ r ə ˈ f l iː z (i) ə,-ˈ f l iː ʒ (i) ə, r æ-/), [2] or stinking corpse lily, [3] is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. [4] The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants; one species has the largest flower in the world.
Since gaining notoriety as one of the world's smelliest foods (including being discussed on the BBC panel show QI), surströmming has become the focus of a number of "challenge" videos on YouTube and other platforms, where people uninitiated to the food perform opening a can for the first time, usually with initial reactions, and trying to eat ...
The healthiest fruit is the tomato, according to the CDC (and yes, a tomato is considered a fruit!). This is based on a breakdown of the nutrient density scores of 41 “powerhouse” fruits and ...
The odor of the fruit body is quite unpleasant, resembling fetid garlic, [17] "old cabbage water", or "overripe cheese". [10] It has been called "a candidate for stinkiest fungus in the forest". [16] The unpleasant odor intensifies after drying. [18] Fruit bodies are not edible. [10] Spores are elliptical, and have fine spines situated on warts.