Plants I Will Not Be Ordering

[mme_hardy]

I shy away from anything with the species name "foetida", but "Sterculia foetida" is a new low. Apparently it lives up to the name: "Coming across a Java Olive in bloom one would think that one was near an open sewer, and any part of the tree when bruised or cut emits this unpleasant odour."

(For people who missed that bit of Latin, "stercus" is "turd" or "dung", and "foetida", the parent of "fetid", is foul-smelling.)

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

Delightful!

[tigerflower]

I imagine it as a border plant in a place where one wishes to deter incursion... far away from the house, though.

[mme_hardy]

The next step after zucchini-bombing an enemy's porch: plant a seedling in his/her flowerbed.