Submitted by _Asparagus_ t3_12431vd in baltimore
Seriously, what the fuck were you thinking? I'd like my beautiful spring days to not smell like a someone nutted on a tilapia filet and left it to rot for a week.
Submitted by _Asparagus_ t3_12431vd in baltimore
Seriously, what the fuck were you thinking? I'd like my beautiful spring days to not smell like a someone nutted on a tilapia filet and left it to rot for a week.
They look beautiful. Hold you nose.
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Frame this and hang it in the BMA.
Jizz blossoms
What a great time to be a mouthbreathing doofus.
I love the smell. It's kinda jasmine-y.
Jizmine-y
Had them in our college quad. Every year the cum trees came.
The beautiful smell of the glorious cum-tree, harkener of the spring time in o little town of baltimore
They are the worst! But they are quick growing, so many landscapers plant them.
It’s not much worse than asparagus piss.
Prolly ur upper lip, don’t blame the trees
My upper lip may look like a Cinnabon but those various substances are always less than 24h old, never as fowl as a Bradford
Springtime is a-cummin
If I am not mistaken the Bradford pear tree is the official tree of MD 😂
The inverse ugly duckling
They are an invasive trash tree, and crowd out native trees too!
I am cackling in my car 🤣 Maya Angelou has nothing on you.
If you like the smell here are some great job opportunities for you
We had those... In prison
There's definitely a silver lining to my allergies soon blocking any and all functionality of my nasal passages
Sorry!! Mr. Bradford
I'm allergic to the nasty fuckers. Their treemen has my sinuses miserable.
The worst fucking trees
I grew up in Fells/Canton and I thought those were dogwoods! Damn they stink so bad.
You are incorrect sir or madam
https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/symbols/html/tree.html
Shut up and take my upvote.
I am both allergic to them and reminded of what is missing in my life
Ahh spring
I cannot smell them at all. I wonder if its a cilantro situation.
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The wood is quite nice for turning and making jewelry boxes.
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Will I be paid to smell the specimens? Do I need a degree?
“Asparagus” knows their body-fluid based odors
There’s a pearl necklace joke in here somewhere
Give this person a Pulitzer
> My upper lip may look like a Cinnabon
ma lerd
Always wondered what Cumberry trees were actually called.
i'm sure if you keep posting this you can find some jizz donors here in hampden
Am I the only one who can’t smell them? When someone points it out to me it just smells sorta musty like other pollen.
I can't smell them either, apparently. Surely these can't all be Dogwoods blooming around me.
for anyone who has not seen it: "Prime minister, do you smell cum?"
They fucking reek
Thank you for the support
They also are prone to splitting and have a tendency to fall on cars
To be clear, no one currently working for Forestry has planted a Bradford pear. These trees were the industry darling in the ‘70s but haven’t been planted for several decades. Proof: I worked for Forestry for 14 years until last year.
They're an invasive species. There are other pretty things we could plant that are native and better for the local ecosystem.
William Donald Schaefer named it the official tree of Baltimore back when he was mayor
My thoughts every time I see one! Which is like every 5 minutes. American dogwoods have beautiful spring flowers and they don't smell like rotting garbage.
My sense of smell must be compromised because I smell nothing on those trees.
Are you sure the smell isn't emanating from one of the known hooker spots, like Ft. Armistead? Or perhaps even one of the more "popular" hookers? Lol
Same. Can't smell them and cilantro smells and tastes delicious to me.
It’s times like these when I miss Covid nose.
It is the official tree of Baltimore City. Schaffer signed it, no one in Baltimore politics has cared enough to change.
Yes! Was thinking this same thing riding my bike down cathedral st this weekend.
I've never noticed the smell and cilantro tastes like soap to me.
Growing up we called them pussy willows.
I bought a house last year with two Bradford Pear trees in the front yard. Within a few months, a huge limb broke off one and took out the internet for several houses around. A few months later a huge storm rolled through and the other split in half, taking out my lightpost and the railing to my stairs. I paid to have them both cut down and it's one of the best decisions I've made with this house so far.
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What a dumb take. They smell like semen. Cum. Jizz. It's overpowering. Just be grateful you apparently can't smell them.
Blessed are those who, for some unfair fucking reason, can't smell these abominations.
#allergiesFTW
Good to know that im not the only one that absolutely hates those trees. They are an absolute abomination and I am not exaggerating in the least when I describe them in that way.
The Cum Trees Cumeth
All the rage in the 1990s around Maryland. My parents had their house built and the builder had them as part of the planting plan lining the boundary of their property.
r/the10thdentist
We had them outside my high school. It was an older school with no air conditioning. Opening the windows in spring was really unpleasant.
Here too. Love me some cilantro and don't know what people are talking about regarding these trees.
On a lighter note- There is a fruiting pear tree on the triangle of land, at the intersection of MLK Blvd & Howard St. If you are in the lane which is turning right onto Howard, (in front of the hospital, the small tree is on the left. Sometimes panhandlers stand on that spot. It stands about 7 ft high. It may be a remnant of the Bolton Estate, which sat very near that location, and which the Armory now occupies a portion of the estate property.
And they don't get huge and fall apart in wind or ice storms...
The Washington post did an article about how they came here over a century ago. I’ll try to find it later and Edit this if I do. It’s was a really interesting read.
Feels like spring came a little early this year…
I think I can’t smell them. I noticed the distinctive smell of Gingkoes growing up in Baltimore, but not that of Bradford pears. Now that I live in MoCo, I know Bradford pears as the trees that take down power lines at the slightest breeze. Still can’t smell them.
They line Jenifer Road in Timonium.
We lived off Jenifer for a decade. I'd never smelled them prior to that - my town in HarCo didn't have them, or had so few we rarely encountered the smell.
I'd love it if the golf course replaced them with a native species but they only care about appearances.
Snap, you might be on to something.
They are supposed to be short-lived, lasting 25 years or so. I think they will naturally die out “soon” and be replaced, but agree that a proactive solution would be to start replacing them now. As they get old and accumulate injuries and rot, their dead branches will be bigger and more likely to cause problems as they break off.
It’s a quote from a movie 🙄
they are planted all around maryland.
such a garbage ass tree.
Found Out About Goo!
Planted all over Michigan too. Just FUNKY. 🤢
That is the absolute best description of that wretched smell.
doesnt help the amount of pollen they make is just gross as well!
Ginkgo. That is another horrendous smell. Distinctive is putting it mildly. Smells like stepping in dog doodoo.
It wasn't your neighbor who decided this. It was the city. They wanted male non fruiting trees and boy do these smell male
Maybe not in forestry, but I still see developers planting them all over the place.
They need to be banned. There are miles and miles of these trees along 32 and 95, and just on my road they’re completely taking over large swaths of woods. (Aided by English Ivy killing of mature trees in the area. That should be banned too).
I honestly feel kind of left out. My nose doesn't work all that well, and I have no idea what all the complaints are about. I don't smell it.
I ride down Orleans street by hopkins all the time windows down and theres a ton of them along the road. Just smells like eastiside to me. I see the trees and think theyre really beautiful. It sucks to know that people are dying slowly inside just going by them lol. I'm gonna go sniff a tree to see if its really just me.
So that's what that smell is
They make great firewood. Just saying'.
Awwww the cum trees!!
I found a really good article about how they came to be the invasive monster they now are. Maryland had a lot to do with it.
Thanks. This confirms the trees near my house are Bradford Pear and not Dogwoods. I cannot smell the pear trees (thank goodness, apparently!).
Geez-us! It's three weeks out of the year. DEAL WITH IT!
I think the cities plant them as they grow quickly and dont require much maintenance, generally dont cause root issues. They are EVERYWHERE in my hometown of Fresno, CA and they are known as the "jizz trees." They stink and announce the arrival of allergy season. The worst.
They're invasive and banned in some areas. Not sure if they're banned in baltmore or maryland yet though but let's hope so.
Same! And I was in PA.
They are banned in some areas due to them being invasive. Then they came out with like neutered versions but those are still invasive. I believe they are banned in PA now but don't quote me and I'm too lazy to find a source.
The original Bradford pear was supposed to be sterile. Worked out really well :(
I never noticed what cum smells like..
Life... uh... finds a way.
https://news.clemson.edu/invasive-bradford-pear-3-other-species-to-be-banned-for-sale-in-sc/ Ohio too. Bradfords are a scourge.
Only female ginkgo trees bear fruit and stink. If you find a stinky one that was planted, someone probably made a mistake. And they do stink! It’s like a combination of vomit & dogshit. I don’t know what the fruits are used for (food? medicine?) but I’ve seen some older Asian folks collecting them by the bagful in the fall, below the huge old ones in front of the Sun paper building. They are beautiful trees.
That was a great read thank you! I didn't realize how invasive they are. I just thought they were a shitty human-planted tree to look pretty
Someone else posted this WP article about its history, super interesting. Sounds like the one you're talking about!
If I was an optimist I guess I'd have written my post as "Cum smells like the beautiful Bradford blossoms of springtime 🥰🥰"
Besides the fact those trees are ridiculously weak and break off and crush stuff all the damned time.
Samesies!!
That’s the one!!
I'm looking for a small tree to plant in my front yard in Charles Village. I know nothing about trees. Would a dogwood work?
Probably, but your best bet is to talk to one of the local nurseries about native species and your situation. They have a lot of knowledge. There's one on Falls and Coldspring, I believe.
Thanks! I hate gardening so I've been planting native perennials but need something to center my yard around.
Omg that’s hilarious
Too bad history has absolved "Ayatollah" Glendening and underscored that untouchable folk hero WDS was a crotchety swamp being all along, innit.
They're breeding then, because I've 100% seen roadways with trees younger than from the 70's, I'm talking 3-5 year old trees next to older more established trees.
Honestly I wish we could get the go-ahead to just chainsaw any that are on public property. Problem would be solved very quickly
lol
My father fought against doing this vigorously
They originated in Maryland. Developed by the National Arboretum and UMD. The area around College Park was a guinea pig so they’re even more common down here…
You are very fortunate. If it were up to me every single one of those trees would be destroyed.
Along with Tree of Heaven which is honestly anything but
You’ve literally ruined spring mornings for me. Thank you.
I hate this smell! Thank you for giving me a descriptive for it! All I could say is, "I don't like that smell!"!
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You are an absolute poet. There is no better way to describe that smell.