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Posted on 10/29/2025 9:10:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
The smell wafted through the air in the October sunshine. At least one Harvard scientist has likened it to “rancid butter and vomit,” while Jennifer Iida, a spokesperson for Sacramento’s Department of General Services, called it downright “pungent and unpleasant.” It was the sweet aroma of two 75-year-old ginkgo trees in California State Capitol Park, and it’s gotten so bad, officials have taken matters into their own hands, surrounding the trees with metal barriers affixed with zip-tied and laminated signs to ward the public away.
As the Sacramento Bee first reported, the issue isn’t just the odor. It’s the slip hazard the fruit creates as it falls to the ground, which can stick to the shoes of unsuspecting passersby. Some people still are willing to brave the stench of the fruit to forage the seeds inside — they can be used for cooking or medicinal purposes, or even to grow a bonsai tree — which poses another problem as they leave the toxin-filled flesh behind.
"NO PICKING GINKO FRUIT," the signs read.
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Governor, the trees are revolting!
“I know.”
Gavin moved his family out of governor’s mansion and into gated $10 million mansion a few years ago. There’s more than just plant stench he’s shielding himself from while rest of CA suffers.
How symbolic.
Why would anybody want these stinking trees?..............
Well, they can’t leave California.
Indeed.
People around here just grow the male trees.
Ginko trees. They always smell.
We all know it is due to global warming. /S
West Reading Pennsylvania planted these same trees along their main street and they were fruit bearing in the 1970’s when I worked there.
The entire main street smelled like vomit every fall.
Never noticed it in a male tree.
That’s just Pelosi’s pussycat.....
The seeds are hard, but there’s material around it (analogous to walnuts) that turns to crap in the rain and stinks up the place, so wise shoppers try to get male trees.
They caught on for a while in urban areas because they tolerate lower-oxygen environments such as the area between the sidewalk and the curb (car exhaust), which means the seeds tend to land right where they will be trod upon.
First time I herd of ‘em was when some relatives bought an estate property and the previous owner liked gardening and landscaping. I think the leaves are just great, as trees they are kind of gangly looking. Durable though...
Gingko is known from the fossil record from the time of the dinos and is the only survivor of its genus, hence the separate genders, a primitive trait, but obviously they’re tough as nails.
Sacramento STINKS!
But we knew that...
Even the grass and bushes are releasing fish like odors. Like tuna left in the sun.
I have different verbiage to make that description but will refrain for now.
Maybe even the trees wish they could escape Governor Newsome.
Just be happy it’s not a tree called Pyrus calleryana, better known in Australia as the ornamental pear, or the callery pear in the US.
The trees are even sick of the RATS.
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