Local Quiz

[Snowyboy]

I cannot find the answer to this one, CAN YOU ?
According to Stella Gibbons novel "Cold Comfort Farm" what was the plant whose blossoming "in the fullness of summer" was regarded by the Starkadder family as a baleful aphrodisiac ?
Thankyou for your help.

[Pam Lowndes]

I've googled and it has come up with "Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. ... of the sensual sukebind (a fictional plant), just as the austerity of the farm�s name is undercut by the primal. ... Sukebind ?

[Lie-in King]

Sukebind (?) This extract from the link that follows it -

...sukebind (a weed whose flowering in the Spring symbolises the quickening of sexual urges in man and beast; the word is presumably formed by analogy to 'woodbine' (honeysuckle) and bindweed...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Comfort_Farm

[Snowyboy]

Thankyou both very much for your answers. I seemed to be going down the wrong avenues with this one which has been driving me mad for quite some time.
"EASY " now you both gave me the right route to follow. Thanks a million !