The flowers from 'bongor' tree (not of Lipat Kajang but can be found similar).
Has anyone in Lipat Kajang thought about the diversity of trees and plants in the kampong. The kampong is unique in that sense. The kampong has the tallest tree in 'kuran' (I shall search for technical names later of all these trees/plants/shrubs), to the common plants/shrubs in 'kertau'. Forget about the fruit trees which are known all over Malaya, and all these trees are mostly available in the kampong.
I wish that someone in the kampong would list down all the trees and plants and shrubs seen in the kampong. This will be a basis for a record of the kampong trees/plants/shrubs and maybe later someone may do reserach on these trees/plants/shrubs on where they are useful to the kampong folks in particular and to human/animals in general. From my younger days I knew that there are trees in the kampong where a diversity of birds would gather to eat the fruits during the tree/plant fruit season. I may not recollect now all the names of these trees nor do I now recollect all the names of the birds, but birds like bull bull and its family (merbah) I can recollect . In fact bull bull (merbah butir nagka the local calls them) are plentiful, not only do they get their food from these trees/plants/shrubs but the also eat the red ripe fruits of the caladium (keladi hutan) plant, which is normaly one of their favourite hunting ground for food.
There are also trees/plants/shrubs in the kampong which are for human consumption and for medicinal values. 'Peraga' for 'ulam' for example are easily found on wet ground, in fact many leaves for 'ulam' are found everywhere, 'cemperai' for example. 'Kangkong' are found in most padi fields especially by the bank of these fields, 'terung asam' are found where the soil had been burnt or worked recently and these are normally plentiful, and 'terung pipit' are just for the wanting. Medicinal plants like 'senduduk' are everywhere ('senduduk' young leaves when chewed are good for closing an open wound), 'daun sembong' are also seen on open fields ('daun sembong' is good when immersed in hot water for taking bath in where the aromatic value of the leaves relieve muscle pains), and 'sungkai' are abundent (the leaves of 'sungkai' tree/plant when boiled and water drunk give relief to diabetic patients, it lowers the glucose level). If only some persons in the kampong again can list down all these medicinal trees/plants/shrubs, it would help others in research or even just as an alternative to taking chemically based medicines.
We are rich in useful trees/plants/shrubs but no one in the kampong has todate taken the trouble to list/record them down. Maybe we should start now.
Lipat Kajang people (or decendents) are encouraged to participate& contribute (Orang Lipat Kajang, atau keturunan, di jemput memberi sumbangan idea)
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Salam LKP bloggers and LKP
ReplyDeleteThat is an area that could be intensify into business venture.
Modelling it along the line of the Langkawi Dr.........(miss his name).
Sungkai leaves as medicine for diabetic patient. That is info to me.
Banyak pokok sungkai ni di LKP. Dijadikan tiang pagar untuk bubuh tali besi/dawai kokot.
Yeah a walk in a berbal /yard/kampung/village/plantation.
Why not.....good idea Pak Ngah.
Terung asam buat sambal dengan budu terangkat........emmm.
banyak lagi pokok yang berguna di lipat kajang tu. kita je' yang tak tahu. tanya orang, collect information, list them down and you will be surprise at what you can get. if we do not record them down now the information will be lost forever. put the info in this blog and we all can learn ....... together.
ReplyDeleteeven everyday stuff like daun kunyit, kunyit, langkuas etc etc has medicinal values ......... get the info and record them down.
herbal garden? a good idea ...... who wants to start it? high maintenance cost though.
once we get all the info we can even write a book and sell the books to interested parties. even foreigners will be interested.
pokok leban umpama nya, adalah pokok yang keras. cuba tokek, parang pun moh sumbing. pokok bongor, satu pokok yang bunga nya sangat cantik. jambu air, bunga cantik dan buah dimakan burung2 dan binatang (saya pun juga makan buah jambu air masa saya kecil dulu) pokok terap, kulitnya boleh buat tali gasing. di sarawak terap mashur, orang sabah dan sarawak makan buah terap, disana ada beberapa jenis terap, buah nya sedap2 belaka. batang terpa besar dekat sekolah lipat kajang tu pun sedap jugak, tupai makan dan saya rasa. kalau di sarawak tu, buah terap besar tu dulu boleh jual di pekan sari kerdau (atau pun temerloh). sengkuang (bukan ubi senkuang), pernah dengar? buah nya sedap. banyak lagi pokok2 yang boleh katakan ......... yang membezakna lipat kajang, yang membuat lipat kajang menarik.
ReplyDeletedi pasar old town j othman pj deme juai bukan pucuk paku tapi batabg paku yang di paku ke dinding, keras macam paku besi - RM1.50 se ikat, bawak balik ke rum, satu ikat tak boleh dimasak, 1 jam direbus pun masih keras lagi
ReplyDeletepergi lah ke kg LK Pahang, nak makan pucuk paku sampai termuntah pun, pergilah kutip sendiri, plenty of it, dan boleh masak ikut selera sendiri...
tempoh hari kon balik nak cari daun "misai kuching" - milah (anak arwah pakngah malek) kutipkan (cabut in fact) dari keliling rumah dia sampai ....ikut berapa ndak lah
kemudian ada kawan cakap daun manggis, cubalah
kon ambik juga beberapa helai daun manggis, pokok manggis terdapat merata-rata di kampong tu...
and then ada seorang kawan di perak, every week dia angkut buah mengkudu dari somehwere in pahang, untuk dihantar ke factory di kedah yang proses buah2 mengkudu jadi minuman kesihatan,
di Kg LK pokok mengkudu terdapat in abundance, buah2nya amat baik berkualiti, kenapa tak buka ladang mengkudu, macam kawan saya di parit (perak) tu buat,
cuma orang Kg LKP aje yang not innovative and not enterprising enough, attitude and mindset problem membelenggu...what else can we conclude
betapa all the flora of Kg LKP dibiarkan saja - pembaziran
pasal paku ni, orang kl memang kedekut sikit. kalau di supermarket deme baya je', dengan kad kredit pulak tu. tapi kalau di pekan sari temerloh tu deme tawar sampai mak cik jual sayur merah muka. adakan menasabah paku muda2 yang begitu banyak satu ikat, mak cik tu kata 1 ringgit, dia nak tawar sampai ke 50 sen?
ReplyDeletemisai kucing saya cuba tapi tak jadi. daun manggis saya dah cuba, juga tak menjadi. agaknya kencing manis saya ni liat sikit. daun sungkai saya juga cuba tapi tak menjadi jugak. saya belum cuba lagi buah tunjuk langit.
pasal mengkudu tu, memang benar. di rumah saya di wangsa maju saya ada tanam dalam pasu satu mengkudu pucuk lebar, buah nya kawan2 saya (orang jawa) ambil buat sambal dan daun nya saya ambil buat ulam selepas di rebus. sedap!
pasal commercial mengkudu, dulu saya terfikir jugak tapi tak jadi. tak ada 'energy' lagi nak ulang alek ke Lipat Kajang.
paku oh paku, kalau di tebing rumah tok saya dulu bukan aje' paku tapi rebong pun banyak.
look around us maybe there is a LK-ite who is knowledgeable and experienced enough to activate some kind of entrepreneurial project, coop style (or satu kampung satu industri style) exploiting and utilising the abundance and diversity of trees/plants/shrubs in Kg Lipat Kajang, which never seemed to be depleted
ReplyDeletePokok menchepu and buah salak.....
ReplyDeleteBanyak di Lipat Kajang Pahang.
Menchepu rasa nya ada di Lipat Kajang Pahang je.
Pokok salak kat seberang banyak and i think a short distance dari cheruk panjang pun ada juga....on the way to the river.
Pokok sentul pun ada juga di seberang di tebing nak naik ke rumah Pak Ngah Razak (arwah).
Rasa nya masih ada lagi.
if only someone can list down all the useful trees/plants/shrubs in Lipat Kajang, in a sort of encyclopedia, it can even be a form of studies for Malaysian plants. In the UK every village knows exactly what the plants are available and where they are. Of course they have been in this business of hundreds of years, but they love their trees/plants/shrubs. Who recorded them? Mostly their village priests. And by now probably the task is taken over by U students.
ReplyDeleteTrees/Shrubs medicinal qualities
ReplyDeleteAgain we have to organise with the elderly to identify, tag, name and list them down for LKP consumption.
Then it will need LKP's full cooperation to see to its existence and probably develop it into an eco-tourism style venture.
The help can be sorted from the school children, my children, parents by having a maybe monthly carnival of tree or shrubs identification month.
That is just an idea.....a small idea.
identifying, naming, tagging plants, shrubs and trees in kg lipat kajang pahang - let's organise it and do it, together
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