Smelliest bulbs - nominations
Steve Marak (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:01:27 PDT)

We tuberous aroid growers have an almost embarrassingly large slate of
candidates for this position.

I've grown enough that most of the carrion-scented ones don't really
bother me much any more, nor those that smell musky/foxy (which is how
Fritillaria imperialis smells to me) or of urine. But there are a few of
the typhoniums which produce an oddly penetrating and almost eye-watering
smell of being downwind of a pig farm which still gets to me a bit.

Steve

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, James Waddick wrote:

I have had the honor of experiencing the Dead Horse Arum

And nominate it to the list along with the more common
Sauromatum/Typhonium venosum - or Voodoo Lily.

....and a pot of Paper White narcissus in a closed room can be pretty
intense too. Best Jim

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