> From: aaron floden <aaron_floden@yahoo.com> wrote: > Subject: Re: [pbs] Bulbs for Shade > > 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, you are correct, this is Melanthium virginicum, I came to that same conclusion this morning when Harold Peachy (NARGS member) posted a photo of his plant to the same NARGS Forum topic: https://nargs.org/forum/melanthium-bunchflower/ I accepted the name given to me from a good source, without verifying the identification, I should know better (lesson learned once again, and again)! ;-) I really like your description of the scent on virginicum, cloyingly sweet, but with undertones of cow dung. No headaches here so far. I can only detect the scent from about 1 meter away; the plant is so beautiful that I'm okay with a mild barnyard smell... when the wind blows from the northeast I can smell a very nearby cow pasture, not so bad. Mark McDonough USDA Zone 5 Massachusetts, near the New Hampshire border, USA