Folks from Southern states, do palm branches stink? We brought home blessed palm leaves from the Palm Sunday service as usual, and they are fine. But we also brought a palm branch from a bunch that were used to decorate and then given to children to play because they hadn’t been blessed. I feel that the branch stinks something horrid. Like rancid sunflower oil. Am I going nuts or do they really stink?
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To preserve it, maybe? I thought maybe my sense of smell is still messed up but Klara confirms that it stinks.
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The other possibility is that it’s not a palm branch. I noticed at our church that some of the branches used to decorate were Sago (which is a cycad, not a palm). I have never noticed that sago stinks, but I’ve also never tried smelling it, so I can’t say for sure.
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Gosh, that’s not a difference I’d ever be able to spot. They all look like palms to me. 🙂
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Rotting palms can smell like several things, and all of them smell very bad.
The worst would be a fungal infestation that could spread spores around the house.
Also, if it’s sago, don’t burn it, that stuff is toxic enough already without burning it.
I keep the palm trees on the outside.
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