(UPDATE) BANGKOK: Most species of the famously large Rafflesia flower, which has long captured people's imagination with its enormous speckled red petals, are now at risk of extinction, new research warned on Wednesday.

Rafflesia is actually a parasite, and lives on tropical vines across parts of Southeast Asia, producing blooms that are among the largest in the world.

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