A rare Rafflesia flower has been discovered in peak bloom in a rainforest in Indonesia.

Rafflesia flowers are reportedly among the largest in the world and only bloom for a few days before withering and dying. The flowers are not easily found and mainly grow in rainforests in Southeast Asia.

This one was discovered in West Sumatra's Bengkulu province.

According to Ade Putra, a local forestry officer, the flower was found by a local person on March 10 and was estimated to about three days old at that time and in perfect full bloom.

Putra said: "This flower is part of the Rafflesia flower family but it's not [the more common] Rafflesia Arnoldy. Its name is tuan-mudae and they usually live in Malaysia forests. What distinguishes them is the shape of the hair inside the flower."

Experts describe the plant as a parasitic plant. It has no visible stem, roots or leaves but threads that absorb nutrients from its host plant.

Many people have given it the nickname corpse lily, because it emits an odour similar to rotting flesh that attracts insects to pollinate it.

A Rafflesia flower is blooming in west Sumatra forest Indonesia. This is the biggest flower in the world. It grows in the rainforest. This flower is not easily found in the word. The age of this flower is only 7-10 days, then it withers and dies. These flowers are not rooted parasites, they are leafless and not stemmed. This film was taken on March,13 2018 in Palembayan / Agam / West Sumatera, Indonesia.

This is the comment from the local forestry officer, Ade Putra (forestry officer): "This flower was found by local person on sunday, march 10 2018, estimated the age was 3 days. Now the flower is in perfectly blooming, in the third days of blooming. This flower is include to raflesia flower family but its not raflesia arnoldy. the name is raflesia tuan mudae. usually live in malaysia forest.

What distinguishes with raflesia arnoldy is the hair inside the flower,raflesia arnolndy have a straight and have a had hair, but the raflesia tuan mudae have like L hair. "