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 | | Because the Rafflesia is one of the rarest plants on earth, and because it takes anything from 9 to 21 months until a bud flowers - only to last for less than a week - attempts at artificially growing them in order to study them have been made since 1929. |
 | | The attempt at the Tenom Agricultural Park was initiated under the former park manager Anthony Lamb and former research assistant Herbert Lim, with the seeds coming from Dr Willem Meijer, a scientist who spend nearly three decades studying Rafflesias throughout South East Asia. |
 | | State Agriculture Department Botanist Jain Linton said that the discovery yesterday came as a shock after having waited for nearly ten years: "the last report on the successful propagation via seed inoculation was recorded in the Poring Orchid Centre, and at Kg Kokob, both in Ranau, in February 2000 by Sabah Parks. |
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