This stamps shows a coconut grove. Due to the location of Sabah in the tropics, you can easily find coconut trees growing along the sandy beaches. Although I do not know when coconut was initially cultivated in North Borneo, but by the time this stamp was issued, around 40,000 acres of coconut plantations existed.
Other crops were also planted in North Borneo during that period, notably rice, rubber and tobacco. In recent times, large-scale cultivation of oil palm has taken over as the major crop planted in Sabah, and as of 2010, coconut plantations occupy only about 44,000 acres of land.
Even so, coconuts are still very much a part of Sabah, and driving along the coastal highway on the way to Mount Kinabalu, rows of coconut palms can be seen, being used as landscaping items as well as windbreaks:
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