#  Charles Davis and Elena Kramer Unravels Mystery of How World's Largest Flower Develops 

 





November 04, 2013

 

 

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**Charles Davis** and **Elena Kramer** were among authors of a paper published in the *[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences](http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/10/24/1310356110.full.pdf%20html?sid=52040391-21c5-4fac-a5c7-e030952bef56)* that solved the nearly 200-year-old mystery of how Rafflesia, the largest flowering plants in the world, develop. The Rafflesia (left) and Sapria closely resemble one another yet are actually built in a fundamentally different way. [*Harvard Gazette*](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/11/stages-of-bloom/)*.*



 

 

 



 

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