medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
This is interesting, regarding the slightly unpleasant smell of May blossom:
"Botanists later discovered that the chemical trimethylamine present in
hawthorn blossom is also one of the first chemicals formed in decaying
animal tissue."
(from http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.mythhawthorn.html)
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