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Pathless Forest

by Chris Thorogood

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Mysterious Plants

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Botanist Chris Thorogood, an expert in parasitic and carnivorous plants at the Oxford Botanic Garden, goes in search of the mysterious Rafflesia — the world's largest-flowered, foul-smelling, leafless parasitic plant — in the last wildernesses of South East Asia.

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