IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The ginkgo tree is renowned for its hardiness, surviving everything from road salt to an atomic bomb, but it may be undone by another trait -- it reeks. "It's pretty disgusting," ...
75-Year-Old Trees Are Emitting a Stench Similar to 'Rancid Butter and Vomit' at This California Park
A pair of 75-year-old trees has been emitting a vomit-like smell at the California State Capitol Park in Sacramento The ginkgo trees give off the foul smell due to the butyric acid in their fruit’s ...
A Sacramento resident describes the stinky smell emanating from the fruit of a ginkgo tree at the California Capitol on Oct. 27, 2025. After 46 years, a family thought they had closure in the ...
A ginkgo tree at the California state Capitol was fenced off this month because its putrid fruit was both a slip and a sniff hazard. Incidentally, the berries — technically seeds with a casing — do ...
Have you noticed an awful stench as you are walking the D.C. streets lately? Chances are it’s the smell of about 900 female gingko trees that produce grape-size fruit that cover the sidewalks and ...
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The ginkgo tree is renowned for its hardiness, surviving everything from road salt to an atomic bomb, but it may be undone by another trait — it reeks. "It’s pretty disgusting," said ...
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