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- From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: The Ailanthus Tree
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.202810.8901@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:28:10 -0600
- References: <1992Nov20.080559.715@ab.wvnet.edu>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <1992Nov20.080559.715@ab.wvnet.edu>, del_col@ab.wvnet.edu writes:
- > Ailanthus altissima (AKA Tree of Heaven)
- is a fast growing, weedy tree that
- > the broken wood produces a foul odor(the tree has another common name with the
- > word "stinking" in it, but I can't remember what it is--it is not Stinking
- > Cedar--that's a Torreya(sp?) species.
-
- Gee, just stinking? You easterners are so polite... we call it catpiss tree.
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- Kay
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