New Bloom Solutions looks at the recent trend of AI-generated flowers and how artificial intelligence as a whole impacts floriculture.

Most species of the famously large Rafflesia flower, which has long captured the imagination with its enormous speckled red petals, are now at risk of extinction, new research warned Wednesday.

You spot it on RM10 notes – a crimson marvel the size of a truck tyre. This is the Rafflesia, the world’s largest flower, a botanical oddity as infamous as it is rare.

Most of the world's largest flowers (genus Rafflesia) are now on the brink of extinction. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET , 2023; DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.10431 Cite This Page : ...