Re: [Aroid-l] Thoughts on GOOD SMELLING A. bulbifer

From: "Julius Boos" <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2007.06.24 at 20:19:31(15852) Reply-To : Discussion of aroids Sent : Saturday, June 23, 2007 3:32 PM To : Discussion of aroids Subject : Re: [Aroid-l] Thoughts on GOOD SMELLING A. bulbifer Dear Susan, C.J. and Amorphophrieds, Thanks for confirming that in fact there IS a 'good'-smelling' A. bulbifer, I can FINALLY sleep a restful nights sleep after all these years worrying about it! I wonder where all the people who INSISTED that I was crazy, that ALL P. bulbifer smelt horrible are?? Cat got your tongues, or maybe it is biting your typing finger?!?!?! +More >>Dear Julius and friends, I thought the first bulbifer that ever bloomed for me had a good smell and I commented on this during the original line. But I might have a faulty memory- it has happened before~! This would have been in about 2002 and I think the tuber came either from Plant Delights or Enid. Unfortunately, the tuber has gone to the big greenhouse in the sky- :)<< Your memory is not faulty in THIS case, since in fact there IS a good-smelling A. bilbifer, and a really bad smelling one also! >>Julius, some people simply cannot smell these good smelling aroids. My >>Arisaema candidissimum smell like cotton candy to me, my husband cannot >>smell it at all.<< I know that different individuals both smell and TASTE things VERY differently, that their perception of 'pleasant' vs. 'repulsive' is SO very different, and have debated if I see exactly the same as you or another person might! And this is NOT taking into account color-blindness! My dear friend, the late Lynn Hannon, was COMPLETELY color blind, and she used to try to imagine what colors were like! Interesting to contemplate! < gas!!" which is odd since we have electric power. Then it smelled like road kill.... it was only after I read Julius' email that it registered it was an Aroid blooming (albus). P-U! Susan<< Yes, some REALLY smell bad! Better you than me to have one close to my house! I still remember the late and dear Fanny Phillips' round-robin Amorphophallus group letter (yes, there WAS life before e-mail, young ones!) where she described the blooming of her first A. konjac. She had been warned that it would smell horribly, much like a dead dog, but was assured that the smell would only last a day or so. She said as the thing, planted far-off in a FAR-corner of her garden opened, sure enough a dead-dog smell was STRONG in her yard and neighborhood. It lasted one, then two, then after several more days she thought that she had better investigate, and on walking down her garden to the plant, she actually found that a poor stray dog had died and was rotting near to the now-wilting bloom! The Best, and Thanks again to C.J. and Susan. Julius _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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