The Largest Single Flower in the World Was Named for the Founder of Singapore and Killed Its Discoverer
The *Rafflesia arnoldii* flower of Sumatra can grow to a metre across — the largest individual bloom of any plant species on Earth. It was named in 1820 for Stamford Raffles by the surviving members of the expedition that found it. The expedition's botanist, Joseph Arnold, had died of malaria on the same trip three months earlier.
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