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Published: March 10, 2012
KOTA KINABALU: The stench of what they thought was rotting flesh had a family in Sabah’s east coast Lahad Datu fearing the worst.
Farmer Leksun Injil and all his family members started to pray at their home.
Overpowering bouquet: Leksun with his wife Juinah Kasdi and the corpse flower in Lahad Datu Friday.
Only on Thursday morning did they realise that the smell was coming from the amorpophallus plant that is also known as bunga bangkai, corpse flower or Mr Stinky.
The flower that many mistook to be the rare Rafflesia has been drawing hundreds of people to Leksun’s house near Darvel Bay in Silam.
After looking at a picture, Sabah Parks assistant director (research and development) Dr Jamili Nais identified it as from the araceae (yam) family.
“It is definitely not Rafflesia,” he said.
There have been no records of a Rafflesia blooming in the Lahad Datu area although it has been sighted in the Danum Valley conservation area, about 100km from Lahad Datu.
Rafflesia usually bloom in mountainous areas like Ranau, Kundasang and Tambunan in the Crocker Range of Sabah and their presence in lowland areas close to the sea is almost unheard off.
Leksun said the flower, which he had fenced up with chicken wire, was beginning to wither.
Published: March 10, 2012
KOTA KINABALU: The stench of what they thought was rotting flesh had a family in Sabah’s east coast Lahad Datu fearing the worst.
Farmer Leksun Injil and all his family members started to pray at their home.
Overpowering bouquet: Leksun with his wife Juinah Kasdi and the corpse flower in Lahad Datu Friday.The flower that many mistook to be the rare Rafflesia has been drawing hundreds of people to Leksun’s house near Darvel Bay in Silam.
After looking at a picture, Sabah Parks assistant director (research and development) Dr Jamili Nais identified it as from the araceae (yam) family.
“It is definitely not Rafflesia,” he said.
There have been no records of a Rafflesia blooming in the Lahad Datu area although it has been sighted in the Danum Valley conservation area, about 100km from Lahad Datu.
Rafflesia usually bloom in mountainous areas like Ranau, Kundasang and Tambunan in the Crocker Range of Sabah and their presence in lowland areas close to the sea is almost unheard off.
Leksun said the flower, which he had fenced up with chicken wire, was beginning to wither.
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