It's crooked and the lines need work but I'm a beginner so for now this will suffice.

I always thought science based comics were a pretty neat idea!

Rafflesia Arnoldii must be the weirdest plant I've heard off...

The largest flower in the world, It can measure up to 1 meter and weight almost 5 kg.

It has evolved to become exclusively parasitic to one type of vine found in southeast Asia. Because Rafflesia doesn't need all the moving biochemical parts of an independent plant cell, it has lost a lot of the genes widely conserved across plant lineages. No stem, no leaves, no roots, no cloroplasts (meaning no photosynthesis), just a massive flower and bud.

Starting off as seed the size of saw-dust, the rafflesia infiltrates the maize of vines as a single strand of cells, syphoning nutrients and water from it's host.

After a few months, a massive bud ruptures the bark of the vine and a flower blossoms.

It's pollinator of choice are flies which typically lay their eggs inside rotting matter. So the flower is colored red, the color of blood, the surface tough and full of blisters, and produces a putrit scent like rotting meat.

After reading about this weirdoo, it became my favorite flower.

It is such a perfect example of how evolution is explorying every single iteration of what it means to be alive. And I love it!

Unfortunately, it is on the verge of extinction... If you want to read more about it here you go: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001991 https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-of-giant-corpse.../