A rare glimpse inside the largest flower on earth, seen today in the Sumatran jungle:

Rafflesia hasseltii: a plant seen more by tigers than people. Watching this flower open by night was the closest thing to magic:

A life-changing encounter in Sumatra: Rafflesia hasseltii grows in just a few remote, tiger-patrolled rainforests, accessible only under permit and seen by few. We trekked day and night to find it, and look what happened when we did.

The Sumatran jungle is a place where plants corkscrew themselves out of the ground:

It's good to be back in the land of the snake fruit (Salacca zalacca).
Indonesia 🫶🏻

Eloise, my 9 year old toad, changes colour with the season. Today she's wearing her best autumn colours. Toads alter their skin colour using pigment-containing cells that expand or contract in response to temperature and light. Soon she'll turn dark brown as the nights get cold.

The world's smallest and largest flowers: