Yeah my college campus had an area with Bradford pear trees and that definitely created more than one awkward conversation.
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Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ginkgo trees don’t have flowers. They are gymnosperms like pines, firs, spruces, cedars etc.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
They smell like vomit.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Not even fruit, just a fleshy pine cone of sorts.
Some places they eat the fruit, like Japan and China
7eter@feddit.org 1 week ago
Yeah they actually are not to bad tastewise. Just be sure to use gloves when handling the raw fruits with the stinky flesh around it.
I heard various things about their health benefits. But people seem to agree to only consune small amounts.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yeah, the meme is fine but OP got the wrong tree in the title. Should be the callery pear.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Isn’t all pollen basically tree cum?
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 week ago
No, it’s genetically the offspring of the plant, and contains at least one non-reproductive cell. Pollen produces the male gametes, so the seeds created from it produce the 3rd generation of plant, genetically speaking. (1st gen is pollen producer, 2nd gen is pollen, 3rd gen is seed.) It’s basically an ultra-minimal gametophyte stage.
deltapi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So it’s tree…pre…cum? Wait, no, the tree is throwing his balls into the air, but he also grows more balls…?
Why did I even start typing today?
snooggums@piefed.world 1 week ago
Yeah, but why does it sometimes smell like mammal cum?
7eter@feddit.org 1 week ago
I don’t know why - but the relevant tree is called (Götterbaum in German) or Tree of Heaven - beautiful
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Some trees are pollinated by beetles, flies, or other insects that might normally be attracted to rotting flesh. As a result, they often emit a more meaty odor. Why cum specifically I can’t say but I think cum has certain organic molecules in common with dead things.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Doesn’t cum just smell like bleach or avocado? Nothing in particular?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 week ago
laranis@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
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ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I thought this for the longest time until I fell down a rabbit hole a while back. Pollen is literally the tree’s offspring in the form of microscopic plants. When the flowers of a tree are fertilized, the pollen literally grow into the actual reproductive parts of the plant to begin the fertilization process.
sepiroth154@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Reproductive organs smelling like reproductive organs isn’t that weird, now that i think about it, reproductive organs smelling like flowers are weird…
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 week ago
muhyb@programming.dev 1 week ago
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re a wizard, Harry
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I absolutely hate Bradford pears but people in the south LOVE planting them. Damn fools, I say!
I have friends that apparently can’t even smell them
qarbone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Smh outed themselves as gooners who can’t even tell anymore
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I tried getting them with this by asking if they could smell them and all I got was “it’s 50/50 because of my allergies”
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The people who owned our house before us planted one in our front yard. We didn’t realize what it was until a couple years after we had lived here and it started sprouting its flowers. Even then it took us a while to realize where that smell is coming from. Now the thing is fucking huge and taking it down would be incredibly difficult and expensive because of where it’s planted. So 3 weeks out of the year we just don’t go outside and keep our windows closed… 😑
P.S. we do not live in the south. I don’t even understand why this thing is here.
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The only good news about it being massive is that if the wind blows a little too hard it’ll crack in half!
Image of a large Bradford pear tree that has a large limb broken from the trunk
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Cumtrees also have a right to exist
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 week ago
figs have entered the chat
marretics@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Please don’t tell me figs smell like cum as well! My wife just got a fig tree for our patio
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You might be fine with a small potted plant, but yeah they stink.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Fig didn’t smell like cum, not that I can tell what cum smells like, given that I have been covered in it so much, I can’t smell it at all.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No but you’re eating a dead wasp every time you eat a fig! The More You Know™
Zomg@piefed.world 1 week ago
Bradford Pear tree next
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Pretty flowers they remind me of my dearly departed Harold.
dkppunk@piefed.social 1 week ago
We have this other tree that’s grown around here a lot. It has the most beautiful explosion of purple flowers every spring. Then it just smells like cum all day lol
Bonus@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Jacarandandfindout!
luciole@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Oh?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah there was a tree that was flowering for like 3 weeks in june and it made ma want to puke it smelled so bad. Still have no clue what tree it was and it was luckily only where I worked and not where I live. So I did not have to smell it constantly.
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
On the bright side, you can masturbate around them and no one will know! By smell at least.
Dojan@pawb.social 1 week ago
Unless the tree narcs on you.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
God damn talking trees, snitching bastards all of em
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Damn, I wish I’d read your entire sentence.