----- Original Message -----
From:
L*@aol.com
To: a*@mobot.org
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:33
AM
Subject: Amorphophallus stories
Who mentioned anything about
'funny' or 'joke' ???? :--)>
Julius
>>In a message dated
4/21/02 10:54:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, j*@msn.com writes:
Dear Jim,
Watch out for flocks of vultures circling over
your home, hoards of large
flesh-flies enveloping your entire
green-house, and crowds of caped and
hooded neighbors with torches,
clubs and pitch-forks screaming at and
beating down your
door! :--)
Keep us informed of YOUR impressions of this
weed-of-satans smell!!
Julius
This isn't just a joke. I have a few
Amorphophallus paeonifolius that bloom in my front yard every year. One
spring day I heard a racket on the roof of my porch. I went outside to
see a flock of vultures congregating on the roof. They never actually
came down to do a close inspection of the flower but it was enough to fool
them this much.
I also used to have a neighbor who had a wonderful,
friendly collie dog. I knew this dog for years and never heard it bark
at anything, ever. One day my Amorphophallus was blooming when my
neighbor came over with her dog, and the collie stared at the flower and began
to bark at it. It was very funny.
The first time this plant
bloomed I was talking with another neighbor and she asked me if the sewers on
the street had backed up. Sometimes when they are blooming I am just too
embarrassed by the odor and cover them up with paper bags so neighbors don't
think its coming from my
house.
Linda
