Mark's plant is one of my seedlings, grown from seed received as Melanthium latifolium. I agree that it appears to be virginicum. Mine haven't flowered yet -- they're still in pots. Russell At 06:24 PM 7/10/2013, you wrote: >Is that correctly identified? It looks suspiciously like virginicum >which should be flowering now and is too early for latifolium which >is not yet in flower here yet in the wild. >I have smelled parviflorum and woodii as well and they >have distinctly putrid marine water smell. Your description of the >fragance is much how I would describe for virginicum; cloyingly >sweet, but with undertones of urine and cow dung with a tendency to >produce mild headaches. > > Aaron > E Tennessee Russell Stafford Odyssey Bulbs PO Box 382 South Lancaster, MA 01561 508-335-8106 http://www.odysseybulbs.com/ http://www.facebook.com/odysseybulbs/