Kembang-Kembang Wangi: Sweet Rafflesia

Sweet Rafflesia

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Taken in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (See more photos here)

5°58' 22" N, 116°4' 03" E

This beautiful rafflesia was painted by Batik. Batik means "dot" so it's orginally a kind of painting by dot.
This batik rafflesia was hanging on exibition part of Rafflesia in research center.

In Thailand we called Rafflesia "Bua Phud" ("บัวผุด") which mean emerging lotus. It could explain how the flower sudenly emerges from bud on ground.

I took tihs shot first for making sure ibn case I could not see the flower by my eyes.

something is not always easy to get, to have or to see, we need great attempt for and by this attempt, something like that will be unforgetable and it's great that once in a while we start to do something harder for something precious.

Difficult route
but beautiful desination in return.

(added) From Wikipedia

Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. It contains 15-19 species (including four incompletely known species as recognized by Meijer 1997), all found in southeastern Asia, on the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and Kalimantan, West Malaysia, and the Philippines. The flowers have no leaves and hardly any stem, just a huge speckled five-petaled flower with a diameter up to 106 cm, and weighing up to 10 kg. Even the smallest species, R. manillana, has 20 cm diameter flowers. The flowers smell like rotting meat, hence its local names which translate to "corpse flower" or "meat flower". The vile smell that the flower gives off can sometimes attract flies. It is parasitic on vines in the genus Tetrastigma (Vitaceae), spreading its roots inside the vine. The fruit is eaten by tree shrews and other forest mammals. Rafflesia is an official state flower of Sabah in Malaysia, as well as for the Surat Thani Province, Thailand.

At Rafflesia Research Center
Kotakinabalu
Borneo Island
Malaysia

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Kembang-Kembang Wangi

Sweet Rafflesia

Sweet Rafflesia

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