The bad smell of success
Dead-horse arum florets smell identical to rotting animal carcasses.
Dec 11, 2002
The dead-horse arum (
Stensmyr et al. used gas chromatography with simultaneous flame ionization detection and electro antennographic detection in Calliphoridae blowfly antennae to characterize the odor of samples from the arum and from a carcass. They identified that the...