Date:  Mon, 16 May 1994 09:40:35 EDT

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: Flower scent and dialect



>

>For example: I've always been interested in the host of plants whose flowers

>give off a semen-like odor (gingko, barberry, etc.), and met someone here in

>Arizona who calls an unidentified tree the "sex tree" because of this odor. I

>think Linnaeus classified these smells as "Hircinae," i.e. goat-like in odor.

>The ADS list members have such a treasure of linguistic idiosyncracy; any

>botanical smell lore out there?

>

>Osmically Yours,

>Kevin Dann

>Scottsdale, AZ (where pineapple-smelling acacias now fill the air)



--Gingko smells like dog mess in the hot sun, pure and simple.







Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu