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Old 06-22-2009, 07:39 PM   #7 (permalink)
hydrophyte
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Default Re: Hygrophila sp. 'Guinea' stinks!

when i was a little kid we had milking goats for a while. earlier this spring i grew some H. angustifolia emersed--it adapted readily--and it had a musky stench like a billy goat...made our whole house smell just like the barn when we had goats in there. i found this intriguing, but got tired with it after a few days and stuck the plant back underwater.

here is a macro shot of a bloom on that plant. the foliage was covered with those fine hairs, which were sticky with an oil that created the strong goat odor.

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