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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Arborists hate Bradford pear trees. They’re the ones that have white flowers and smell like cum. That’s not even why we hate them though.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
It’s an invasive species and they grow with very poor structure so that they basically collapse in a pile or broken limbs after a couple of decades. And the nurseries marketed them heavily for a while so they’re planted everywhere. Pain in the ass to work with.
hakase@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
They make fantastic smoke though. Absolutely the best free meat smoking wood out there, because you can always find it in piles at the ends of people’s driveways for the trash to pick up.
sartalon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m going to gather that then smoke does NOT smell like cum too.
Or is that why you love it? 🤔
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Some house nearby must have one of those in their garden, because there’s a section of the road where I always catch that odour. Thanks for pointing it out to me, now I’ll look for the tree next time I have to pass through.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
There’s actually a few trees that can smell this way but if it’s in the spring and there are white flowers then it’s probably this one.
BurningRiver@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I had one of these in front of my house, and every spring I wondered why I smelled crusty underwear in my living room. The day I finally had it removed was one of the happiest of my life.
What’s the reason arborists hate them?
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I wrote a mobile app years ago for a company that surveyed power lines to figure out what trees had to be cut away. They gave me a list of something like 800 tree species and I was like “do you guys really know what all these trees look like?” They did, it was a very impressive knowledge set.
A fun fact about power lines in rural areas: property owners generally get compensated monetarily when their trees have to be trimmed for this, and the amount they get is dependent on the species of tree. So the surveyors would usually find all kinds of incredibly exotic shit planted directly under the lines, basically a cash crop for people living in the middle of nowhere. This is probably a huge and under-appreciated factor in the spread of invasive species.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That’s gorgeous, I love the unintended consequences