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Hi to everyone who replied to my message,

Thanks for all you help and to everyone else this certainly has been an
amusing and enlightening discussion. When I have solved the problem
using the help received I will let the list know what worked best.

Have a good and happy new year!

John Bowditch

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Subject: Stinky-poo--gingko

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>The gingko tree produces fruit with a rather foul/poo-ey/rotting
garbage
>smell.

One of my students in Botany 101, University of Michigan, long long 
ago, described it more precisely as the smell of dog-sh_t  (my email 
insists on euphemisms). He grew up in Detroit and remembered a street 
where the female trees had been planted by mistake. (Almost all the 
gingko trees you'll find in cities are males.) I'm sure the U of M 
herbarium or arboretum could help you locate some.

Another possibility--the sprays that emergency teams use to train 
dogs to find dead bodies. I gather from a friend who did this that 
there is spray with cadaverine in it.


Karen Reeds
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Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Guest Curator
Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
Exhibition, February 15-June 30, 2007
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia  215--389-1776
http://www.americanswedish.org/

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