Nice pic shame about the smell.! by astro66

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Apr 03, 2005

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Description

This plant is called 'Drimys lanceolata', the foliage, when bruised, smells really nice - kind of sweet and peppery, but the flowers smell abosolutely putrid! It's a good job we don't of smell-o-vision yet!!

Comments (5)

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zulaan

1:01PM | Sun, 03 April 2005

Wow ! Fantastic flower and beautiful capture ;)

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sharky_

2:14PM | Sun, 03 April 2005

Beautiful! Aloha

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Enmos

5:51AM | Mon, 04 April 2005

This stinks !! lol ;o) Beautiful flowers, hard to believe they have such a foul smell, wonderful shot !! :o)

ebsmooth

11:33PM | Thu, 07 April 2005

lmao at your description of the smell...lol!!! putrid stink aside, this is a fantastic shot!!! color and clarity are very good!!! well done!!

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Blush

4:25AM | Tue, 10 October 2006

I have heard of this one But never saw one...it is beautiful But I don't think I would love the aroma From the way you spoke of it Excellent capture Hugs Susan~