| Re: What is this
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tried crushing a leaf but it didn't smell of anything.
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The books seem to disagree about how much, and of what, it smells. One says it stinks, but another says it doesn't stink but smells of raw meat. Perhaps it's a seasonal thing.
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I also had a good look around the hedgerows and found quite a few of them scattered about, I can't think why I haven't seen them before because I'm a pretty observant person most of the time. Are they quite common plants?
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Locally frequent is the book's cryptic comment. Mainly south of a line from the Wash to Skomer, with some in north Wales, and scattered introductions/escapes north as far as Nairn. Mainly calcareous soils. Not very easy to spot when it's flowering as it can easily be obscured by surrounding vegetation.
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