Tony Avent wrote: “I've never smelled any bad odor from Pancratium foetidum, but then amorphophallus don't bother me, so I'm obviously not a good judge.” Hmmm... amorphophallus don't bother you? Do you like your meat well and long hung? This makes me think of those directions for preparing woodcock by hanging it by the feet until the body separates and falls off. And then the bird was cooked without gutting it. And all seem to have agreed that it was a great delicacy. Actually, it probably wasn't any worse than the wet cured beef they sell in the grocery stores now. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone 7, where one of the pleasures of late winter is to play, flashlight in hand, the woodcock game when the male birds are performing on their little stages and flying up into the air, twittering and fluttering back down to the same spot - all of this in the dusk or near dark. My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/