Re: Malodorous plants
Randall, Rod wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
Yes Rod, it's the Grevillea leucopteris native to the northern
sandplains. The polite name is "White Plume Grevillea".
Beverly
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Beverly Elischer
Perth, Western Australia
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