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From: "Plantsman" plantsman at prodigy.net> on 2002.05.10 at 20:19:28(8749) I do think that you are right. After all, odor consists of airborne molecules of the chemicals that are responsible for the odor. A job I had many years ago required that I travel through an area in Western North Carolina that was home to a huge Champion (now Blue Ridge) paper mill. You could smell this mill at least five miles away or even more if the wind was blowing wrong. I didn't think too much about this until after I'd left the area the first day and after getting out of my car for a meal, upon re-entering it, the smell was very apparent. You could even smell it when I got in it the next day. The locals there say that it smell like money . One of the less disturbing aroids that's in bloom right now is my Arum italicum. I have some very large one's that I bought through Park Seed Co.'s wholesale division about four years ago that were very large tubers. Right now, they're showing off some quite large greenish-yellowish spathes with a very prominent inside dusting of purple. Very nice and the scent is more like one of those stinky bathroom deodorizers that you sometimes encounter in old gas stations. I've got another grouping of A. italicum 'Pictum' that are also flowering, but their spathes are very pale green colored. The foliage shape and size is so very different between the two, not to mention the coloration. They're so nice to have that pretty foliage during the Fall and Winter when everything else has died back. +More David Sizemore Kingsport, TN "Also home to a large Weyerhaeuser paper mill" ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:46 PM Subject: Re: A. konjac's blooming : The Smithsonian Institution has an osteoprep lab. Dead animals are brought in and placed in a room full of Dermestid beetles. The building has air filters to remove some of the odor. When the filters break down, Turkey buzzards can be seen circling overhead. I do search the skies when my Amorphs are flowering. : I went in there a couple of times and the smells actually penetrates clothing. It stays in your clothing until they get washed. Odors are air born particles. : : : Mike Bordelon : : Botany Greenhouse : Smithsonian Institution : 4210 Silver Hill Rd. : Suitland, MD 20746 : 301-238-3130 :

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