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A recent report carried out by Australia’s leading scent analysers has found that Jasmine is probably the best smelling flower in Australia.
“For the past two years my team has been conducting a study into just how good Jasmine smells” says Dr. Plantae, the lead scientist behind the study.
The study entailed Dr. Plantae and his team going out and interviewing over 5000 residents as they walked past walls where the shrub is overgrown, and despite the plant completely taking over walls in some instances, there was a resounding result: “Jasmine smells pretty fuckin’ good.”
“It’s not the language I would have chosen myself” says Dr. Plantae.
“But it’s what the people have said”
“We even got people who changed their daily commute so they could walk past the shrub”
Jasmine, a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family, contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperature regions of Eurasia and Oceania, and as Dr. Plantae explains, Betoota is extremely lucky to have the amount of Jasmine growing here that it does.
“Everywhere else in west-Queensland is too dry for it.”
“But Betoota is like a tropical sovereignty where it thrives”
“We are so lucky.”
