A corpse flower blooming in Cairns, Australia, in January 2018. Mangiwau/Moment RF/Getty Images Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter .

Native to western Sumatra, Indonesia, the corpse flower, or bunga bangkai, blooms only once every 7 to 10 years, releasing a foul odour to attract flies and carrion beetles for pollination.

First described in 1990 and illustrated with black-and-white line drawings, ... We have produced a searchable list of Australian native plants lacking photographs.

New research has shown that certain Australian native flowers have shifted away from using insects as pollinators and evolved their flower color to the red hues favored by birds.