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The gingko tree produces fruit with a rather foul/poo-ey/rotting garbage smell. As a freshman in college, we had them on my campus. Inevitably, someone would be tortured when a "friend" would get a single fruit, hide it in the dorm room of some poor sap, and enjoy the spectacle of that person tearing apart their room to try and find, often unsuccessfully, the hidden smelly fruit. If they didn't find the fruit, they might have to deal with the smell for months! No, I wasn't tortured, or a torturer.
You might need to work with your local plant store, or botanical garden, or talk to a botany professor at your nearby university who teaches field identification classes and might know where a tree may be in your city. Get a bag of the fruit, stick them in the freezer and use one fruit at a time as you need them to replace an older, dried-up, non-smelly one in your exhibit.
Martin
Martin S. Fisher
Director of Education & Exhibits
Nauticus, The National Maritime Center
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Norfolk, VA 23510
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From: John Bowditch [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 8:40 AM
Subject: Stinky-Poo Two
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Hi All,
We are improving an exhibit on landfills and landfill gases. One of the
components is an exhibit that addresses the problems with uncollected
gas seeping out into the atmosphere.
We want this to have a "sniff component" that emits what a landfill
smells like. A sort of "rotten garbage" smell. Any ideas on a source for
this? I thought of installing a small cylinder of H2S but somehow a
cylinder of poison gas on the floor doesn't play well in Peoria. I've
also considered using Asafetida (Hing) a very strong-smelling Indian
spice. Any other ideas?
Jason Stevens: I called the source for the previous stinky poo and they
don't stock it anymore and it isn't quite right anyway!
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks!
John Bowditch
Exhibits Director
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
(734) 995-5439
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