A 13-year search for one of the world’s rarest flowers has finally come to an end, and the emotional moment was caught on video. The clip shows an Indonesian flower hunter crying tears of joy after finding the super-rare plant. Septian “Deki” Andrikithat has spent more than ten years trying to find this extremely rare flower.
He finally found the Rafflesia hasseltii in Sumatra, Indonesia. This was a huge achievement, especially since Andrikithat said he’d been searching for this exact plant for “13 years.” Dr. Chris Thorogood, an Associate Professor of Biology at Oxford University, went on the trip and filmed the amazing moment. Thorogood told The NY Post that the journey was difficult and the flower was so rare that the team got “quite emotional about it.”
