ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** Yes, several years ago I saw a very interesting set of behaviors in St. Louis when a street was planted with (yup) female gingkos. People would stop, check their shoes, and look around. It was really pretty amusing. Beryl On Dec 22, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Karen Reeds wrote: > ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology > Centers > Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related > institutions. > ********************************************************************** > ******* > >> 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 > -- > 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/ > > [log in to unmask] > 609--279-9420 > > ********************************************************************** > * > More information about the Informal Science Education Network and the > Association of Science-Technology Centers may be found at http:// > www.astc.org. > To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the > message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to > [log in to unmask] Beryl Rosenthal [log in to unmask] Dir. of Education and Public Programs MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)452-2111 (t) (617)253-8994 (f) *********************************************************************** More information about the Informal Science Education Network and the Association of Science-Technology Centers may be found at http://www.astc.org. To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to [log in to unmask]