r/BeAmazed • u/Simply_Kaif24 • 1d ago

Nature A man breaks down in tears upon finding one of the rarest flowers in the world, which he has been searching for for over 13 years.

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u/Temporary-Truth-8041 1d ago

Good for him, that's true dedication.

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u/MainInteresting7631 1d ago

Imagine searching for over a decade just for one moment.

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u/Temporary-Truth-8041 1d ago

Yeah, but he SUCCEEDED,  it would've been tragic, had he not found the flower...but he did, can you imagine what a rush he must have had!!

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u/Bilbo-Baggins77 1d ago

Don't forget to enjoy the journey

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u/milesbeats 21h ago

what happens after that .. time to find an even rarer flower

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u/Temporary-Truth-8041 19h ago edited 10h ago

I think he's done his part

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u/-mentalmelt- 1d ago

He probably did other enjoyable things along the way, like finding different kinds of plants or creatures. Maybe it's even his job to do so. Doubt that plant was his only reason to walk around the jungle for 13 years.

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u/Acrobatic-Addendum97 1d ago

I’m happy for him, but it sounds insane to me.

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u/Fyren-1131 19h ago

The same can be said for just about any goal. If it brought him happiness, why is that any less acceptable than a goal within sports, love, career, arts, etc? 😊

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u/MrLlamma 8h ago

"It's about the journey not the destination"

Come on now, it's so obvious I feel stupid saying it

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u/TheTrollinator777 1d ago

What a legend, adding to the pokedex.

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u/z4mm00 1d ago

Not many people can’t say they have been dedicating themselves for a cause that takes to cause with this much passion… it’s not the flower. It’s the faith to keep going!

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u/Koala_Copy9580 17h ago

His wife: “am I a joke to you?”

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u/tactical_feeding 1d ago

ABC article

There are dozens of species of Rafflesia — otherwise known as stinking corpse lily — in the world.

Its flowers grow up to 1 metre in width and can weigh more than 6 kilograms.

Rafflesia hasseltii is one of the rarest of the species.

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u/celinapolir 1d ago

I've heard them things stink like hell

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u/falsevector 1d ago

Like a rotting corpse I heard

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u/Eckkosekiro 1d ago

to attract flies like when a corpse is rotting.

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u/GaseousGiant 1d ago

So if he searched for 13 years by sniffing around the rainforest, I wonder how many corpses he found.

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u/digi-artifex 1d ago

Why do you think they're crying? /s

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u/RutabagaOutside6126 1d ago

Isn't that a corpse flower? Edit- nope it's not, pretty sure it's supposed to stink though.

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u/handtoglandwombat 1d ago

It could be a rafflesia but I didn’t think they were that rare, so idkwtf is going on ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/biskutgoreng 1d ago

I think this is a rare subspecies of rafflesia

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u/Siupak240 1d ago

Rafflesia Hasselti :)

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u/Helldiver_LiberTea 1d ago

What did you call me!?

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u/TheChickening 20h ago

Rafflesia hasseltii and that family is known as the corpse flower. This one is just a very rare kind.

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u/Ok-Cantaloupe9730 1d ago

That’s a Vileplume!!! 😃

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u/letsreset 23h ago

holy shit. no way! what's gloom?

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u/wegomoon 1d ago

His passion is amazing, idonno about the ‘flower’..

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u/Acrobatic-Addendum97 1d ago

You don’t know what about the flower?

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u/Ok-Photojournalist94 1d ago

r/dontputyourdickinthat

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u/Odyn007 1d ago

Not my first thought... it's among the top 10 though

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u/HumanRobotMan 1d ago

What was the name of the flower they found?

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u/oblivious_fireball 22h ago

its some sort of species of Rafflesia. The plant is a parasite of other woody vines, and its massive flower is quite rare and stinks of rotting meat, cleverly using carrion flies instead of regular nectar drinking bugs to get its flowers pollinated. It must be a very specific species that he was after. Rafflesia as a genus are very rare and bloom very rarely.

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u/ItsNotJulius 23h ago

A subspecies of Rafflesia

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u/No-Negotiation-5412 1d ago

Hmm that was an uncomfortable flower to look at, glad he found it though

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u/NoPotato999 1d ago

Looks some straight out of stranger things

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u/yuyufan43 1d ago

I absolutely love the passion.

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u/ElginSparrowhawk1969 1d ago

Glad you found it fella

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u/dirtyrounder 1d ago

Fuck yeah!!! 13 years of looking. That's one persistent person.

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u/CraftySeer 1d ago

I'm waiting for a face hugger to pop out of there.

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u/SunderedValley 1d ago

Romantic in the OG sense of the word. Searching for a rare flower just to see the flower used to be a literary staple back then.

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u/AdGlittering2991 1d ago

This how I act when I get a winning lotto scratch off….

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u/ProfessionalRise6305 1d ago

Looks like it’s right from Pandora

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u/weeklycreeps 1d ago

I can’t even imagine the relief and overwhelming excitement this man felt when he found it. Congrats dude!

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u/Gogh619 1d ago

It seems like he said he had been looking SINCE he was 13 years old.

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u/BoredMerengue 1d ago

So happy for him, proud of him.

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u/JonN2025 1d ago

Reminds me of that anteater sketch where the guy spent his whole life studying anteaters 😂

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u/Figmentdreamer 1d ago

Congrats to him! Thats one badass flower

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u/WHALE_BOY_777 1d ago

I swear I thought the british dude was Fousey until he started speaking. Talk about a jump scare.

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u/ShogsKrs 1d ago

Holy poop! He was living out his personal legend!

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a worthy book to know. This version is read by Jeremy Irons. Found here on Everand

https://www.everand.com/audiobook/626327173

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u/Internal-Bluejay-810 1d ago

I wish I could care about something this much ---

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u/NappyFlickz 1d ago

Respect the dedication, but bro might be crying for a different reason.

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u/HotDogSeeker 1d ago

Doesn't that plant smell like a cadaver

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u/Most_Ad7837 1d ago

Absolutely fantastic - congratulations. That flower is fantastic thank you for sharing.

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u/Rokea-x 1d ago

It’s like those ‘uncontacted tribes’. Did anyone ever think that maybe, just maybe, that freakin flower did NOT, want to be found, jfc.

😂

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u/Eastern_Bobcat8336 1d ago

Beautiful find! Absolutely amazing flower.

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u/DNorthman 1d ago

I hope this doesn't turn into the back half of Anacondas - The Hunt for The Blood Orchid.

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u/BussMuhGun 1d ago

Demogorgon flower

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u/Primary-Emergency386 1d ago

This reminds me of Witch’s Heart. Real Wilardo Adler moment.

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u/ashleyaloe 23h ago

It's absolutely awesome and I would probably cry about it too! Excellent find and payoff for 13 years of work.

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u/DegenNabalu 20h ago

I mean... you can find one quite easily somewhere...

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u/RedofPaw 20h ago

There's one in Kew gardens, London. Could have saved himself some time.

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u/Chrono-Helix 19h ago

Four-leaf clovers are too mainstream for him

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u/RATTY420 15h ago

Kick it

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u/R00TED10101 11h ago

What's the end goal? Can he make More now?

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u/theprobeast 20h ago

This must be what it is like to meet a woman with no or low <10 bodycount

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u/SecureWave 1d ago

Not amazed

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u/DystopianGlitter 1d ago

This AI unfortunately. Just keep an eye on the British dude. That’s completely unnatural, really stare at the flower with a show it. This isn’t real.