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An arum by any other name would smell as rank -- so it's just called the corpse flower.
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By TESS NACELEWICZ Staff Writer  Visitors to Mackworth Island in Falmouth often admire the orange- red berries of the bittersweet plant, and sometimes take them home to use in Christmas wreaths.  But what many don't know is that those berries are the fruit of a killer vine.
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Ah, the sweet smell of success: Maria Sharapova's Wimbledon title helped her land an endorsement deal for a perfume that will bear her name.
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The parasitic dodder plant doesn't have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey. The dodder attacks such plants as tomatoes, carrots, onions, citrus trees, cranberries, alfalfa and even flowers, and is a problem for farmers because chemicals that kill the pesky weed also damage the crops it feeds on.
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By Doris Hajewski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 18--RANDOLPH -- It's a zero-degree February day outside, but inside the Jung Seed Co., the earthy smell of soil and peat moss is in the air, and with it comes the promise of spring.
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While many Christmas trees sparkle with tinsel and lights during the holiday season, some reek of fox urine or wear a splatter of pink stain.
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By ERICA MELTZER, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  That fragrance wafting on the evening breeze, that eau de Roger Road that lets you know you live in Northwest Tucson, soon could be a distant memory.
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By Claudia Mel, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Feb. 21--The water situation in East Salinas has had a foul smell for a long time, and officials are getting serious about finding the source of the stench.
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By Ana Menendez, The Miami Herald  Feb. 14--My father's love affair with citrus trees goes back further than I can remember. Other dads played golf; mine spent his weekends pruning, watering, pampering. And wherever we lived, our backyard was always filled with the sweet scent of orange.
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Midwestern farmers welcome a new fertilizer additive that leaves a telltale fluorescent pink stain on the hands of anyone who touches it. Theft of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer, used to make methamphetamine, has become a major problem for farmers.
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The sweetest smell of the postseason, that heady aroma of champagne and cigars, filled the Red Sox clubhouse once again. No matter how many
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By TONY GERMANOTTA | THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  W hen the conditions are just right, the odor that lingers over Stoney's Mobile Home Park in Chesapeake is plain wrong.
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By Betty Lin-Fisher, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 11--The next time you order flowers, make sure you know exactly with whom you're dealing before completing the transaction.
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DURIAN, a heavy, viciously spiky fruit, is said to taste like heaven but to smell like hell. Its aroma hasn't prevented it becoming a favourite of the island's Chinese population - nor the monkeys who inhabit the tropical rain forests where it grows.
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By Darin Fenger, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Mar. 5--There's profit in poo.   Just ask a local organic fertilizer dealer like Dugan LaRose, a fellow who can testify that it all sure does stink, but it sure is the smell of success.
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It's probably the last thing most people think about when buying roses. But by the time the velvety, vibrant-colored flowers reach a Valentine's Day buyer, they will have been sprayed, rinsed and dipped in a battery of potentially lethal chemicals.
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By JOSHUA SISKIN  The moment of my annual ode to the saucer magnolia has arrived. No flower is fresher, cleaner or more refined than the saucer magnolia.