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I'm finding this whole conversation very amusing.
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Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 10:25 AM
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Subject: Re: Stinky-poo--gingko
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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:
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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.
>
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