This episode appears not to have published last week when it was supposed to, and I don't know why. I'm sorry about that. It was finished and scheduled, but it still said "draft."

Today's topic is the Musk Plant. No relation to Elon. It’s a flower that smells like that stuff that’s in all the perfumes and colognes. Except, it doesn’t anymore, and that’s a mystery!

Music by James Milor from Pixabay

Information provided by:

• Flowers and Their Meanings: The Secret Language and History of Over 600 Blooms by Karen Azoulay (2023)
• https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Erythranthe%20moschata
• https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/mimulus/moschatus/
• The lost scent of Mimulus moschatus by W.B. Gourlay (1947). Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 72, pg. 285-287
• Lost fragrance of musk by Eric Hardy (1934). Nature, 134, pg. 327. https://doi.org/10.1038/134327c0
• The lost scent of Mimulus moschatus by J.P. Hudson (1948). Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 73, pg. 24-25
• The lost fragrance of musk. Nature, 134, pg. 54–55 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134054a0
• The scent of Mimulus moschatus by H.N. Ridley (1947). Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 72, pg. 373
• National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region (2nd ed.) by John W. Thieret, William A. Niering, & Nancy C. Olmstead (2001)
• The musk mystery: A suggestion by Sir W. Beach Thomas (15 November 1930). The Spectator, pg. 10
• Mimulus moschatus in Massachusetts by M. E. Ward (1904). Rhodora, 6(71), pg. 227-228 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23293612
• https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/erythranthe_moschata.htm
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythranthe_moschata