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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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