Re: Scents

Liz Runciman wrote:
> 
> We're having a rather cold spring in Adelaide, but on warmish
> evenings the Port Wine Magnolias (Michelia figo) have such an
> amazingly intense scent.  I'm always surprised by how they
> have absolutely no smell at all during the day.  I also have a
> very pretty hybrid (Mixed up miss) between M. figo and M. doltsopa,
> but her perfume is faint.  The jasmine is flowering at the moment
> and the scent is so wonderful and pervasive that I can forgive it
> its rampant habit for the moment at least.

Liz 
I will always remember the white Brugumansia in our African garden which
my mother (who was no botanist) always called "moonflower". I don't know
what species it could have been, but the large white flowers not only
did not smell of anything in daylight, but they also became quite
flaccid and looked as though they were just spent. Come evening though
they stiffened up opening up their bells and began to give off a most
delicious scent. 

All the Brugmansias I have seen in NZ (only when on holiday, our
district is too cold for them) seem to have flowers which may not have
any scent in daylight but do actually stay open.

Moira
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ.     Pictures of our garden at:-
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
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