Some years ago I had a stapeliad type plant, I forget the name, whose flowers
smell exactly like cheese. Presumably its pollinator was some kind of cheese
fly. My question: mother animals in the wild don't leave their milk lying
around to turn into cheese. I understand cheese is strictly a human discovery.
So how did a flower evolve that smells like cheese?
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much
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Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 1818-1885