RE: Malodorous plants
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: RE: Malodorous plants
- From: "* R* <R*@sp.agric.wa.gov.au>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:17:33 +0800
there is a species of Grevillea (whose name escapes me) that we call "smelly
socks", for obvious reasons.
many years back I unknowingly bought one of these rather attractive plants
for a friend and he planted it under his lounge room window, when they
flower they send up long woody stems with large pale yellow creamy flowers
that you can smell for some distance. Poor Rubin was driven mad trying to
find the source of this stink and (being a single male at the time)
understandably thought it was something in his house that was causing such a
stench.
After putting up with the smell for some days he was out the front of his
house saying goodbye to someone when he walked into a flower, Rubin was
never known for his understanding nature or love of flowers and promptly
pulled the whole plant out and tossed it into the road then rang me up and
abused me for giving him such a stinker of a plant, I couldn't stop laughing
for ages :-)
can anyone give Bob the sp. name??
Rod
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> From: Bob Beer
> Reply To: sazci@hotmail.com
> Sent: Thursday, 28 January 1999 3:53 AM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Malodorous plants
>
> Recently Sean sent in a post about a stinking Buddleia, B.
> madagascariensis. (Seeds???) I've long been attracted (maybe not the
> right word...blowflies come to mind) to stinky plants, and grow both
> things called Voodoo Lily (Dracunculus and Sauromatum), Stapelias, and a
> really odd-not-quite-rotten-smelling Epiphyllum. I'm eagerly awaiting a
> start of a nice lush Smilax species from Arkansas that smells like
> carrion. Mom promised! But it's especially fun to find a member of an
> otherwise pleasant-smelling genus that really knocks your (sweaty gym)
> socks off. I really should be growing Lilium martagon but haven't
> gotten around to it. Pretty *and* ugly smelling. And Eryngium
> caeruleum, I've found, really does smell like dog s***. The bees are
> absolutely nuts for it though. "Say it with flowers" takes on a whole
> new meaning...
>
> Anyone else come across malodorous members of usually sweet-scented
> plant families?
>
> Bob
>
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