Why Do We Keep Planting Trees That Smell Like Semen?
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- What's that awful smell? Cat urine? Semen? Rancid butter? Possibly one of these gorgeous city trees?
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The only bird that enjoys this tree is the swallow.
haahahahahhaaahahahaahhahahaah
Thanks, people rarely make me laugh.
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
Shogun Oh that's magnificent !
Jerry Whidby Are you kidding ? What's funnier than people ?
No wonder bees are always swarming into my bedroom.
Fish Ed Sounds like a hive is nearby. As long as it's not attached to your home. 😅
R/wooooosh
@@jackh1577 :
Z/Kaboom
Linden trees are amazing sources of nectar for bees
LOL!!
This video wins the award for the least expected thing I'd see in my recommendeds
FireLord Obama Oh.... you don't get these types of videos in yoir recommended that often?
Speaking of terrible smelling plants... My mother did some massive gardenwork a few years ago and, like the good child that I am, I helped with some of the upkeep after everything was planted. One of those plants, when crushed or cut, was uniquely and overwhelmingly unpleasant to smell.
I looked up what it was out of curiosity and was surprised to find it was Elderberry. That Monty Python insult makes so much more sense now.
Draconic74 For the record, I'm not trying to say you're wrong here. However, when I asked what "smelled of elderberries" meant, my own mother told me that it means he's addicted to (presumably elderberry) wine - he's a drunkard. This has always sounded like an excellent explanation to me, as well as an effectively rude insult. As someone who's smelled elderberries before, would that make any sense?
Ok, but can you explain the meaning of the first line? What does it mean to call someone’s mother a hamster?
Thank you for my new thing learnt today,
@Draconic74 - Nice Monty Python reference there! :)
@@nemonomen3340 super late reply but a hamster is a fast breeding rodent so he was calling ur mum a skank
On day when I was a child, my sister and I saw a Pyrus Calleryana tree in Washington DC and because the flowers were so pretty, we decided to take one of the branches off and bring them home for our mom! For a few days, we couldn't figure out what that disgusting fishy smell was in our house! Our kitchen, since we put the branch in a vase next to our refrigerator, smelled terrible and it was so funny when we found that it was the beautiful and innocent looking flower branch! So I started smiling and laughing when I saw you brought it up in this video! 😂
LMAOOOO I- DOUUIREHHEWRHUEWJIOSJIOASIJJA
scishow 2012: how did universe came to existance
scishow 2017: why do we keep planting trees that smell like semen
Joseph Cro Why the Hell not? You know?
Omg they had those white flowery trees at my high school, I always said they smelled like jizz and no one agreed with me lol
Perhaps they were not as familiar with spaff as you are :D
Rob Fraser LOL
I guess we know what you're crusted with
Michael Sherman ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
crusty grrrl same
Ginkgo's are very interesting. What amazes me particularly, since I know Japanese, is the origin of the name. The tree comes from China originally, where it is called 白果 (bái guǒ), meaning white fruit - or in older times 銀果 (yínguǒ) meaning silver fruit, or else 銀杏 (yínxìng), meaning silver apricot. This last word (or rather it's middle Chinese equivalent) was what was borrowed by the Japanese, and is now pronounced as "ginnan" in modern Japanese.
From 銀杏 (ginnan), we get the English name, but the change is really strange. in 1690, a German naturalist by the name of Engelbert Kaempfer was able to visit Japan (at a time when the country was otherwise closed to foreigners, remarkably). He recorded the name of the ginnan plant, and even brought seeds back to Europe. However, he seems to have misread the name of the plant, or else used an uncommon variant of the name, because the second character 杏 can also be read as "kyō."
Japanese Kanji, unlike their Chinese counterparts, often have many different readings. They have readings based on Chinese loanwords, or meanings based on native Japanese words, or a variety of both. In this case, both these readings are ultimately from Chinese, but from words borrowed at different periods and different dialects.
But more crazy than that error, we have the "kgo" spelling, which as far as anyone can tell, was just a mistake spelling. Had he written it correctly (using the Romanization style he had employed), it would have been kio or kjo.
And then finally, we have the fact that everyone pronounces the word "ginkgo" as "gingko." The history of the word is just one mistake after another.
Assuming your research is true: THAT, is interesting. It's not the first case of bad romanisation, though it does one-up every other case that I know of
trees in NYC have short life spans, except gingkos...so they're far too common
Gotta be honest here I do not know near enough about Asian languages to understand exactly what happened besides the apparent mistranslation of kjo/kio to kgo. So I don’t think I can fault the guy for not being the best at Japanese in 1590. But hey just the attempt at trying to translate the Japanese name to English is a little admirable. Most distant cultures would be like “alright well that name is stupid as hell plus I can’t say it, we’re gonna call it the green fan tree” lol
@@sheldondrake8935the irony that you even spelled out gingko right after he said all that 😂 I get it though, the whole “kgo” sound (spelling especially) does not really exist in modern English. It’s hard to pronounce
@@monhi64 Yeah, understanding the complexities of Japanese and its kanji is very hard, though very rewarding. I tried to summarize it briefly, which can end up rather dense. Let me put it another way:
When the Japanese borrowed the Chinese writing system, they first used it to simply write Chinese, like the way Latin was used throughout Europe in the middle ages. However, they were not reading and writing in modern Mandarin; at first they were writing in a very old dialect of Wu Chinese, which is very different. This was in the 5th and 6th century.
Later on the Japanese began using and borrowing a different type of Chinese, "middle Chinese," an old type of Mandarin. This type of Chinese mostly overtook the old Wu-based type that Japan was using before, starting in the 7th century.
But then the layers keep getting lathered on. Japanese never stopped borrowing words from Chinese. Even to this day there are words borrowed from modern Mandarin. Chinese continued to change, but the Chinese characters remained standard, so as Japanese borrowed new words, it sometimes borrowed new ways to read the same character.
The Character that is important to this story is 杏, which means "apricot." When the Japanese borrowed it from Wu Chinese, it was pronounced something like "gyao" which later became just "gyō." When they borrowed the same word from Middle Chinese, it was "kao" which changed to "kō." However, the word for the fruit of the ginkgo tree: 銀杏 was borrowed even later, in the 12th century, and became the word "ginnan" in Japanese.
So now 杏 can be read as gyō or kō or an, but oddly enough it seems that the 杏 in 銀杏 gained yet another way of reading it: "ginkyō." This likely comes from reading the character 杏 as "gyō" (the oldest reading), but applying the typical sound rules of Japanese. In Japanese, /g/ usually doesn't follow a /N/ sound, while /k/ can, so you get gingyō becoming ginkyō. Or else, this reading might have been a mix of gyō and kō, it's hard to say exactly where it came from, but it became the most typical reading for the character.
Thus if you were a mostly literate Japanese person sometime in the Edo period, but were not familiar with the name of the fruit of ginkgo, and thus knew it used a more unusual reading of 杏 as "an," it would be a reasonable guess to think it is the more usual "kyō" reading.
Engelbert Kaempfer was German, not English, so for him Y is not a typical letter. Instead he would have written the Y-sound as either or (like in German), so it's likely he meant to write the word 銀杏 as "ginkio" or "ginkjo." However, perhaps his notes were misread or something, and this became "ginkgo" instead.
The funniest part is, you might notice I said that "ginnan" or "ginkyō" is the "fruit" of the ginkgo tree. In Japanese, the tree itself is not called either of these words, but rather "ichō." This too came from a Middle Chinese word, the name of the ginkgo tree itself. Again Kaempfer was likely confused or mistaken, thinking the name of the tree was "ginkyō" when that was rather then name of its fruit!
why don't we say the other way around? ewww Semen smells just like Pyrus Calleryana or Bradford Pear tree.
It's not clickbait-y enough.
On a serious note that is actually a really good question, is much prefer to here one of my excretions smells like a plant. Then when I learn the plant smells horrid I'd die laughing.
加藤みずっち Simple. If you're trying to get someone to understand something, you use something they have a point of reference for. If I'd never smelled semen but had smelled those plants, your statement would make more sense. But considering semen is a fairly common substance that I'd guess a majority of people have interacted with, it's a better base descriptor than the other way around.
Asking the real questions here
Oh yeah Bradford pear trees smell weird
It's simply because more people have smelled semen than they have smelled these trees.
It is true, seamen do smell of fish.
Lol I love puns
This one is good
Puns are good
Bonus points for making a seamen joke that was actually about sailors.
Smells like chlorine actually
Smell like bleach...
In the field behind my house, there's a little patch of woods that's slowly being overtaken by Callery Pear trees. Its kind of fascinating to watch it happen as the seasons go by. My old highschool planted 2 a few years ago and now there's like 10. And they grow on the sides of highways and grow into power lines and stuff. When they call it an invasive species they aren't kidding.
I guess they’re much more widely intentionally planted in other parts of the US. I wasn’t aware we don’t really have em in my neck of the woods
There were a ton of callery pear trees on my college campus. It was a pretty small campus, and most people walked most places, so getting to class in the spring was...lovely.
My first thought when the notification for this video popped up was "There are trees that smell like semen?" My second thought was "Enough people know about these trees to warrant a video about them being repeatedly selected for planting?" My third thought was "Is it common knowledge what semen smells like?"
I have encountered a ginkgo tree, though. There was one in a courtyard at the community college I went to, and I hated walking by it when the seeds were rotting on the ground, because they smelled like old cheese or stinky feet.
I once did an experiment where I presented Bradford pear (Callery pear) flowers to a group of people and asked each of them to take a whiff. A few people said they didn't smell anything, a few said the flowers smelled mildly unpleasant, and a few visibly cringed upon sniffing the flowers and reported that the smell was extremely unpleasant. My sample size was pretty small (about 6-8 people), but it suggests that some people might not be able to smell the smell of Bradford pears. (Unfortunately I didn't control for whether or not anyone had a stuffy nose, so better testing is needed)
And here I am wondering about this whole video. What, smelly trees? I’ve walked through so many cities around the world, but pretty much can only smell pine trees.
I’ve smelled these trees in my neighborhood at times. I haven’t smelled one in a while.
We had a female Ginko tree in our schoolyard... One year we were in a classroom through which windows you could admire the beauty of the Ginko. We only opend the window once.
I will never forget that smell.
I still think that city planners are just sadists
Bold of you to assume they're causing us discomfort
@ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
or they just have some really specific kinks
Oh my goodness, I thought I was the only person who knew this! There was a Callery Pear tree at my high school AND my neighbor has one in their front yard. I always plugged my nose walking by it at school and I rushed into my house whenever I got home because it DOES smell like semen. I thought I was the ONLY person who thought this. Thank goodness you explained this!!
My college had 6 of these planted in the quad next to the cafeteria. Ode de semen does not pair well with food.
My junior high had three on the courtyard. No one else ever mentioned the smell so I thought I was crazy
Lol 🤐🤐
OMG... my high school also had trees that smelled like semen. CONSPIRACY!?
I also thought I was the only one. I was always afraid to mention the smell specifically because I didn't want people to be all, "where's YOUR mind at". But wow, I hate those trees.
Where I used to live, there was a Gingko tree just outside of the back porch. The leaves were beautiful during the summer, but when fall came around with damp weather in tow, the stench was absolutely HORRENDOUS! The worst part came when you inadvertently crushed a seed under your foot! We weren't allowed to wear our shoes inside if we accidentally stepped on one! And God forbid you got that stench on your bare feet while taking out the trash or something!!! YUCK-O!
Callery Pears(aka Bradford Pears) are amazing, y'all. As mentioned here, they smell very much like spooge. The pears are laughably tiny, astringent things that are great for birds (their intended target, of course!), but inedible for humans.
Best of all, though, is what they do once they grow big enough. Because they tend to have low-set trunk crotches, they also tend to split in half when subjected to high winds. My aunt and uncle got to enjoy dealing with both Callery Pears next to their house crashing onto different parts of the house over a period of 5 years.
Well why does my semen smell like trees? Can you tell me that?
Seth Dutton it's all about optimism anyway
I smell like a stinky tree
Seth Dutton You are GROOT. 😂
Never experienced stinky trees in cities before. Is this an American thing?
American here.
No, we do not plant trees that smell like semen and I don't know why scishow is making a video on it.
themightychickens not in Florida
There were many of these trees from my time in Korea. I think they are pretty worldwide.
themightychickens I think this is a little click baity
Not where I live
A tree that smells like semen is one thing but a tree that smells like vomit I'm cutting it down.
Many cheeses emit butyric acid which is what gives human vomit its unique acrid odor.
Patrick McCurry some cheese really tastes like vomit , yummy
@@patrickmccurry1563
If that stops you guys from eating stinky cheese please keep avoiding them. More for me :)
Says a lot about. Would keep it to yourself irl
We plant smelly trees so that bugs will pollenate the smelly trees so the smelly trees will survive... so we can have more smelly trees? I must be missing some benefit here.
These smelly tree are hardy, they don't require a lot of care to look nice so they're chosen by city planning because they would require less overall time+money maintaining them. Plus, they only smell seasonally, and you usually have to get pretty close to them (unless there's a lot of them, or you're downwind) to actually smell them.
There's two tress of heaven in the yards behind me, and I've never smelled anything from them. Or maybe the city here in general just smells like cat piss.
A tree that sends other plants to floral heaven. The similarities are laughably and naturally hilarious, since humanity the butt of all dark humor.
What the hell did you just say, honelty o cannot comprehend or understand what you just typed
Calary Pear, glad to know what the "shrimp trees" of my childhood are actually called and why they smelled so horrific. When those trees bloomed we were cooped up for a week because the stench was so awful.
We have the Callery pear trees at my school...they smell like fish so bad in the spring
There was one of the pear tree thing a couple of houses down on my block. It was there since my family moved in. About three years ago it was struck by lightning and had to be removed. Almost everyone had gotten used to the smell and children (like me) used to pick the flowers and just hold a bunch of them. Kids from outside the neighborhood hated it. But to me it's the smell of childhood springtime. And it would often get combined with the smell of linden trees and lilacs.
The Ginko seed is eatable once you remove it from the fruit. Learned this from a granny. It's also a way to do away with the problem of smell. Just harvest the seeds before they rot and peel em for a snack.
I'm Chinese. We boil it with other stuff to make tung shui, it's like a sweet soup. It's very soft and chewy.
I've often noticed that trees with catkins smelled of rancid semen. In the UK there are still a lot of chestnut woodlands--though few trees have decent sized nuts (I think that some trees join the fruit clusters together in 4s, to make room for the good sized nuts). As I used to help record fungi year round, I was often in these woods when the chestnut trees were flowering, and was amazed at the awful headachingly powerful fumes from the catkins! Stinkhorn fungi are pleasant in comparison!
Actually, what? What?
What?
Virus I have no idea
Okay because it wants bees and dinosaurs.But I have no idea about the semen part.
Virus I
Virus what
What
NANI?
I'm glad you continue to make these shows. Thank you.
As a writer, I have to commend you on your writing AND delivery. This is very humorous and informative! all good wishes!
I've been waiting years for someone to say something. These used to be scattered all across my high school campus
Godawful.
I await the comments... Should be a good show.
It'll be a great _Sci_-show!
i have came back to tell you, sadly the jokes havent become common. they exist but they arent all over. i am dissapointed
I always wondered where the semen smell was coming from when I exited the front doors of the YMCA into the parking lot; I noticed it only happened during a particular time of year, but didn't relate it to the seasons, and although I thought it was coming from the trees, I thought I must be wrong/crazy...now I know! It's such an awful smell.
I still remember the first time I encountered a Callery Pear, right outside my dorm in my university's agricultural campus. Going to school in the morning was fantastic...
I have always wondered this! TY @SciShow
"Mom where do babies come from?" "Semen trees"
Ah! I remember when I lived in Korea that these trees (Ginkgo) were all around Daegu! These things smelled absolutely awful! Glad to know why.
Thank you for putting that to rest. I always wondered this, but I didn't know what to look up lol!
Hank nailed the smell of the tree of heaven. Since I was a kid, I've described it as 'peanut butter skunk'.
Hello, SciShow! Do you think you could make a video explaining the current knowledge of cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and after learning so much about them, I would love for a bigger audience to learn of them!
I remember seeing your comment ages ago, you're still asking?
That could be a fake memory, though.
phantasm1234 wow that is really a bad thing, I admire the fact you can share this with other people!!! :)
Stop being a cheapskate and become a patron
I would also like to see a video on this subject.
You and the "Irish people react to abstract art" guy should get together.
I like how the tree leaves at 3:41 are drawn as big green scribbles with bird poop on them.
I thought to check out this video because I was curious, and earlier today I drove past some smelly trees. This cleared it up!
I think it's so amazing how a tree can just change its sex so there's an even number of males and females! I didn't even know that was possible
Top 10 Questions Science can't answer
Black Walnut! There was a small area (about 5 suburban lots) that wasn't deforested despite the rest of the surrounding land being farmland or developed. It was about 50% oak and 30% black walnut with a few poplar and mulberry. Every year when those walnuts dropped, our neighborhood smelled like roadkill covered in regurgitated sauerkraut.
Last year when the new owner of the property decided it was too much of a fire hazard, he thinned it out considerably and the walnut trees were targeted with extreme prejudice.
There's a flowering plant where I live that smells like a shirt that's been used at the gym too many times but only when it, the plant, is in bloom. I was standing at a crosswalk once, waiting for the light and I smelled this smell and turned and saw what I expected to be a homeless man but it was just some office drone waiting to cross the same direction. It took smelling the smell again and seeing the same plant in bloom to make the connection. Science has some unexpected twists sometimes.
THERE ARE TREES THAT SMELL LIKE SEMEN. I KNEW IT WTF
How do you know what it smells like?
+Braedon how tf do you think
First name Last name I was joking man
3:30 - Off to Kickstarter I go!
Thank you for tree ideas for my backyard
Thank you for making a video on this! We have those Callery Trees in Tallahassee, FL, and I always thought it smelled of semen, but couldn't find anyone that agreed with me!
Me: scrolls through recommend feed
CZcams: hey wanna watch about *S E M E N T R E E S*
10000bc-why do we not kill
1000 bc-what is a good person
1000 ad -how large is the world
1600 ad -how does gravity work
2017ad-why do we keep planting trees that smell like semen
It might be a different white-flowering tree, as I think it looked more like a bush, but there was a such a plant outside one of my previous places of employment that I swore smelled like a severely over-chlorinated pool.
SciShow asking the real questions and at least providing a solid answer as well.
I KNEW THIS WAS A THING, I NEVER WANTED TO ASK, BUT FINALLY, IT'S ANSWERED
I didn't know there were trees that smelled like semen.
[insert "wood" pun here]
All over Virginia
Cesar maybe we should consider a name change then, Sluttia anyone?
we have trees that bear fruits that taste like semen. i don't know the English name. people eat them for medicinal benefits, so that's how i know.
Guess its just knowledge through exposure
Fresno has plenty of both of the first two in Courthouse Park. It's a truly terrible funk in the summer in addition to the hellacious heat in the Central Valley.
There is an ornament shrub in central Texas that smells like kitty paws. The leaves are fuzzy, too. My friend and I called them the kitty paw bushes.
We had a few Callery Pears in front of my old school and I can confirm that they smell like dead fish. The semen part I'm not too sure about. It doesn't smell like any semen I've ever smelled. But that dead fish part is completely accurate. I'd have to walk past them a couple of times a day and I always remember thinking that those trees shouldn't exist because natural selection should've taken their genes out of the pool. Who knew bees liked fish?
I don't often go for clickbait, but when I do...
but when i do: i put "Trees That Smell Like Semen?" in my title.
Manatee Man To be fair: It isn't really clickbait as the video is actually exactly what it claims to be.
I don't know if the callery pear is what im talking about, but here we call them "flowering pears" They have these little brown fruits that always fall on the sidewalk and make a mess. They have kind of cracked looking bark, and i see the trunks painted white around town. In the spring, the white flowers smell sooo bad. There are about 4 giant ones in a row at my school, and I think it's funny to watch all the girls walk by them and gag
Mmm lovely ginko fruits. TONS of those trees in the California bay area. The fruit smells like someone took a hot dump then glazed it in doughnut glaze. But the smell is really only the fruit and only lasts until someone comes and cleans them up. In some towns people are avid foragers and pick all the fruit before it falls (You can eat a small amount of the seeds as a treat, but too many is poisonous).
Wow. Lots of women confessing to immediately recognizing the smell of semen at 15 years old.
In my city, there are entire streets of trees that drop this gluey goo for months and it makes the pavements sticky and black with dirt, plus they get sick hundreds at a time because duh monoculture. I find it hard to believe that all around the world supposed city planners could only found a couple types of trees that could survive in cities and planted just them even though they stink up the place and give each other diseases.
The court house down town in Washington, D.C. has a smelly Ginkgo tree but, it is a pretty tree during the Fall season, lol. 😅
Hank was faqking killing me lol 😂
Q: What does the ginkgo have in common with the aardvark?
A: Each is the only surviving species in its order
Wow so funny lol fuckn nerd
there is a way to control invasive tree species, *_A_* *_CHAINSAW_*
Thanks I always wondered why.
Back in high school, we had those fishy smelling trees right in front of the building. In the Summer, rather than turn on the AC, we had to open the windows... Every classroom at the front of the building smelled horrible!
why do farts smell bad then warts now this semen? guess i gotta stop watching scishow while i am eating....
Watch a David Attenborough nature documentary while eating. You can learn while getting hungrier.
Tell Me This, I know, right? I was watching it during sex!!
who says semen cant make you hungry
no just no stop
BinaryGaming THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.
GINGKO SEEDS ARE DELICIOUS!!! They're used in a dish called lian zhi gen which, according to Chinese aunties, has many medicinal properties. Aunties notwithstanding it's delicious
I've never noticed ginkos smelling badly maybe I just guessed it off as some other city smell but I'm glad to hear about the white flower tree. the one by my house makes me hate springtime
How about the dogwood? Those smell gross when they flower and they are everywhere here
*YOU JUST HAD TO PICK THAT SPECIFIC TREE TO NAME HERE, DIDN'T YOU.*
XD well it is a perfect example of a gross smelling tree
Thank you for mentioning that a lot of these trees are invasive species.
I knew that Leafy was smelling puke but I didn't expect SciShow to confirm it
Hmm... we have a lot of Callery Pear trees (or as we call them Bradford pear) in my area, but I've never smelled them.
I'm going to plant a tree that smells like vomit and semen in the backyard to remind me of my ex-girlfriend
Haha got eem! Or Uhm got hirh!!
Came here looking for a Mitchell and Webb Queen Victoria joke,
was disappointed.
Do you know how hot I am?! Under this hat? With this beard--this big Victorian beard, Your Majesty? I am *boiling!* I am covered in starch, and I am boiling!
There were Ginko trees at the school I worked for. A row of them along the front gate. Never smelled bad and I worked there for 20 years. The Ginko nut is eaten in Japanese and Korean cuisine, doesn't smell bad.
There was a really stinky tree by my house as a kid and I hated walking past it. The seeds smelled so bad when the fell to the ground I can't explain the smell but I can still smell it today.
Should've just went Canadian and planted Maples or Pine trees.
Thank you, I was just thinking. "I am canadian.. we don't seem to have that problem. Yet another reason why i LOVE being canadian"
Oh my god. I always wondered why the eff I would smell a semen-ish scent when walking around sometimes. Damn you, callery pear.
This video shows in my recommendations today. TODAY.
I planted a ginkgo yesterday.
Thankfully, it's solitary.
I've come to like the smell of Callery Pear trees, though they do sometimes make it hard to breathe for a second when walking under them. And now I know what to call them, so thanks!
Never seen a Ginko tree in my life....
Even the name sounds a bit dodgy.
WHAT DOES SEMEN SMELL LIKE THOUGH
It's a weird smell I can't really describe the smell kinda like a nutty smell mixed with oil or fish
Waft clorox towards your nose, but don't inhale it directly.
Just waft it with your hand. You're welcome
Doesn't smell too bad
I knew about the ginkgo up my block in queens, but the cat piss smelling tree down the avenue explains everything. Whole neighborhood joked that there was a meth lab or a crazy cat lady living in the house with the tree
Juniper (conifer bush variety) is ridiculously popular as a decorative feature in my climate, but myself and everyone I've ever asked agree it smells like cat pee. Strongly, like a litter box that was left for a week while the owners went on vacation or something.
Do these trees produce nuts in any way
Cole Hickey Gingkos do. But it’s not a nut like we usually think of them. They’re kind of chewy. You also shouldn’t eat too many of them at a time.
Hahahah~ :D Seriously, though, Bradford/Callery Pears make pea-sized fruits that taste exactly like sticking alum into your mouth. They taste bad and astringent to mammals, but birds love them, which is great for spreading these nasty trees even further afield.
Yeah deez nuts
"Smells like rotten fish or semen.."
U need to see a doctor now.
Interesting fact:
The earliest use of the term "aromatic" was in an article by August Wilhelm Hofmann in 1855.[1] Hofmann used the term for a class of benzene compounds, many of which have odors (aromas), unlike pure saturated hydrocarbons. Aromaticity as a chemical property bears no general relationship with the olfactory properties of such compounds (how they smell), although in 1855, before the structure of benzene or organic compounds was understood, chemists like Hofmann were beginning to understand that odiferous molecules from plants, such as terpenes, had chemical properties that we recognize today are similar to unsaturated petroleum hydrocarbons like benzene.
I still recall a classmate jumping up and breaking off a branch of white flowers, she gave em a good deep whiff, and threw them done shrieking "these flowers smell like ass!!!" ... I hate those stupid flowers and I swear they are in every got dang parking lot >_
Aaaaah they are coming
THE trees are coming for us
Dog wood trees are horrid. Smells like perm, sulfur like.
I just remember walking around my preschool playground saying "someone is poopy, I can smell it!!" So many pants I pulled out from the back, peering down, searching for that accident that SOMEONE was going to have to take care of. I felt like a crazy lady. Then one day a little girl gave me a bouquet of pretty white flowers from a tree next to the playground... If I had only seen this video, I would have been spared the sight of so many little backsides.
This does take me back, cause I remember having all these smelly ass trees and I couldn't figure out why. I just knew when I passed certain trees, it stunk really bad.
They only smell of semen in the spring when the leaves come.
I've got wood.