Adventure 5 Friends

Gympie

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"Really?"

"Yes, of course, Gympie's pretty."

"Gympie?" confused with his friends. "What is that?"

"You don't know?" ask Manda.

"Just listen," said Dina flat.

"Wait for the gympie plant you mean the deadly plant?" ask Nadia.

"You know what, Di?" Rio asked Nadia.

"Yes, I've read it" replied Nadia.

"really? What book is that? I don't know."

"You don't know? It's okay, do you want me to borrow the book?"

"Can? Yes of course I will," Rio's eyes exuded his enthusiasm.

"Aaah, have they started again," said Fikram and Dina rolled her lazy eyeballs.

Nadia and Rio have always forgotten themselves when it comes to their favorite let alone books, like the world of their own.

The woman we know as this monster is a character inspired by the Gympie plant.

^^^Cited from the website beritabeta.com.^^^

This plant is known as Gympie-Gympie or Gympie (Dendrocnide moroides). However, for Maluku is not yet known local name (in Maluku). If there is, it is suspected that the name only uses local language.

Gympie stinger is a broadleaf bush plant found in Australia. This plant is one of the four species of stinging plants in the country.

Gympie has a height of 1-2 meters, this plant is the most toxic in the world, except for the roots. Every part of the body is deadly, not only for humans but also dogs and horses.

Gympie has wide, heart-shaped leaves, stems and the fruit is dark pink or purple, all covered in tiny, needle-like feathers that sting.  

When the fine hairs are touched, a poison called moroidin will directly penetrate the body. Sometimes, smooth feathers that fly in the air and can enter the nose will make itching, rash, sneezing, to nosebleeds.

A small sting alone will make people feel excruciating pain for months and generally only recover after more than a year. 

Even so powerful the sting, the leaves that have been stored for hundreds of years can still remove the poison of the sting.  

When humans touch the leaves, in an instant the sharp fine hairs will inject moroidin into the skin layer, as a result of which the skin will experience a painful stinging.

In fact, just standing in front of the plant can result in hives, rashes, sneezing, and severe nosebleeds. It is caused by the substance moroidin which is released into the air by the plant.

NOT ALWAYS DANGEROUS

Gympie-gympie has been labelled as an inhospitable plant and an enemy to many creatures. However, D. macrolides is not universally hated.

A researcher found the gympie had been consumed by animals, thought to be insects small enough to avoid fine feathers. At other times, there are bite marks of larger animals, namely pademelon, marsupial creatures belonging to the genus Thylogale. Pademelon has apparently developed immunity to the pungent fur, and makes gympie leaves a delicacy.

^^^Source: m.kumpulan.com^^^

“The sting is like being burned with hot acid and electricity at the same time,” entomologist and ecologist Dr. Marinna Hurley, who had felt stung for 3 years in her research (ariesmunandi.blogspot.com/2015)

This Australian plant biology doctor explained that the needles of poison g**ympie will remain active for a long time even though the leaves have fallen to the ground.

^^^Source: beritabeta.com^^^

Well that's a glimpse of the gympie-gympie. It is indeed a dangerous plant but behind it, it has benefits and has an important role in the balance of the ecosystem.

"Haah, the fairy tale is long," said Dina sleepy hearing an explanation from Manda.

"Wow, really? I never knew it all this time" said the woman looking happy.

"Well now you know" said Manda. "So trust yourself" he said with a big smile on his lips.

"Yes, and I'm representing tribal friends apologizing to you, I feel so guilty, "sorry Albert's mother lowered her head.

"There's a sorry side to this as well this person," said Fikram.

"Yes, I didn't expect. I guess in her life there is no word of regret," replied Dina.

"Hey, I heard you know!" upset Albert's mother.

"Thank you all, now I'm relieved. Oh no, it's when I have to go" said the woman about to leave.

"Hey wait, where are you going? Can't you stay with us? You can come with us anyway," said Manda preventing the gympie woman from leaving.

"Haha, no. I have no right to go with you. I really have to go, there are things I have to take care of" he said.

Manda was disappointed. But the woman just looked at him with a faint smile, and then she stepped out of the place.

Before long the two figures approached the woman, they spoke a voice that was able to make the woman stop her steps. "I apologize to you on behalf of the kingdom" said one of them.

The woman flipped her body, "Who are you?"

Albert's mother approached the woman and whispered. The whispers? The author won't tell, wkwk. The woman rounded her eyes in an instant, she just bent down in front of the two mysterious figures. All six beings breathing except for Albert's mother, was confused again with his behavior.

"What the ...."

"Greetings to the crown princess" said the woman.

"Crown princess?" redouble once.

One of the figures prevented him from bowing. "Hey, stand. I should have bowed before you. The kingdom has made a grave mistake on one of its precious treasures, forgive us," the figure was about to bow as well, but it must have been stopped by the woman.

"Don't Princess, don't ... It is inappropriate for a future queen to bow before this sinful people" said the woman. "I'm sorry I attacked the Princess."

"It's okay, my people," said the figure.

"Now I have permission to withdraw. Greetings Princess. Greetings all."

They let the woman go, disappearing in an instant with the gympie plants she grew herself. The problem is done. The embarrassed princess who covered Manda like a bandage had turned back into a crystal that was now in her grasp.

"Can anyone explain all this confusion?"

Well, Albert's mother is ready to be billed again, wkwk.

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