Re: Anthurium "Circus Peanuts"

From: SelbyHort at aol.com on 2000.07.03 at 18:58:39(4964) Actually Tom named the 'Circus Peanuts' Anthurium for the smell of that atrocious candy that you buy in celephane bags at candy counters that is shaped like giant peanuts in their shells. This orange sherbet-colored candy has a ghastly foam texture with the sicky-sweet fake smell (and taste) of bananas (amyl acetate) that is used for cheap artifical banana flavoring. The scent from the flowers has this same amyl acetate component and is quite distinctive. It does not smell like beer or real peanuts or anything like that! The name is quite a joke but is not a really fitting name for such a hybrid so we chose instead to call it 'Mike's Goliath' to honor Mike Bush, who made the original hybrid back in the early 1980's. Donna Atwood Selby Gardens +More << BTW, at Selby, they call it A. 'Mike's Goliath'. Tom Croat put the handle that we use on it... He said the inflorescence smelled like the little things that elephants like.... Hot Roasted Peanuts... (Also reminds me of sitting at tables in the jungles of Ecuador with beer and peanuts, an experinece that I had a few times.... lots of fun.{Dave L and Betsy F. will have this memory also}..) >>

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