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- Stuffburger, on 12/15/2008, -0/+14Instead of injecting these trees with some weird expensive chemicals, let's use some slightly less experimental technology.
The axe. - Surferess, on 12/14/2008, -0/+14Stinko Gingko!
- hutch1973, on 12/15/2008, -1/+14The Democrats want more birth control, the Republicans want the trees to wait until marriage.
- BeShirtHappy, on 12/14/2008, -0/+9We have a male Ginkgo we planted in our yard 10 years ago so don't have the stink problem. They are very slow growers though... our Ginkgo doesn't seem much bigger now than it did 10 years ago. If I'm not mistaken the Ginkgo was the only tree to survive the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima?
- TVarmy, on 12/15/2008, -0/+8I propose we introduce a genetically engineered breed of monkey to eat the flowers before they fertilize each other. Naturally, we want the monkeys to give birth to a dozen offspring a year to keep the flowers in check, and once the flower problem is under control and the monkeys are no longer needed, we release the bears.
- whitecracka, on 12/14/2008, -0/+6Hah. We've always been in deep stinky fruit.
- pjsmike, on 12/15/2008, -0/+6Those fruits can have one of the worst smells a plant can have, but the seeds are one of the tastiest and healthiest thing you will ever eat. Put some olive oil, salt and pepper and pan fry it. Best thing ever.
- TVarmy, on 12/15/2008, -0/+4In the article, it says male contact with female trees produce the fruit, which makes the smell. Thus, if you only have male or female trees, you'll be fine, if I understand correctly and female trees can't autofertlize. Male trees are probably a better idea, though, since they can't produce fruit by definition.
- inactive, on 12/15/2008, -0/+4OR FIRE.
- TVarmy, on 12/15/2008, -0/+3No, this is Washington state. They want the male trees to get married together.
/s - soupdawg30, on 12/15/2008, -0/+3Can they not just cut them down. If it isn't a native tree who cares?
- capellathestar, on 12/16/2008, -0/+2""Uuuuugh. Uuuuugh," Christine Lombardi, a desk clerk at the Hotel George, which has a ginkgo by the front door, told the Post."
***** awesome. - coheedcollapse, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2Well. I learn something every day. I've just always called the fruit "*****". The damn things smell like you stepped in a pile of vomit, feces, and parmesan cheese. It sticks to your shoes and follows you around and damn is it pungent - you can smell that stuff from a few feet away. We used to have them on my old school campus and I recently came across them again with a group of friends when we were checking out an abandoned hospital facility.
Honestly, the first time I smelled them I immediately looked around for a sweaty fat man to associate the disgusting smell to. It's unnaturally bad. - wheelfoot, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2Ginkgos are the oldest living species of tree.
http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2003-09/24/co ...
They are also a DUMB ASS pick for a city tree. I don't walk down certain streets in my neighborhood because I know my shoes will smell like vomit by the time I get to the other end. - Y0tsuya, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2When I was little our family would go down to Forest Park in St. Louis and pick up buckets of the stinky seeds. Occasionally there would be another Asian family there also gathering seeds while the non-asians looked on. They have no idea that it's edible. We'll wash and dry them, then crack the shells and cook them. Tasted kind of "neutral" though. Didn't care much for it.
- mikeophile, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2An official was quoted as saying, "The hardest part was figuring out how to stretch the condoms over the trees."
- inactive, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2The smell isnt thaaaaat bad - Its not as bad as the redline on a saturday night, or "the Anacostia smell". (heh heh)
- Vorin, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1the female trees are the stinky ones, go figure.
there's one about 100 yards from here, and the whole campus has nicknamed the fruit it produces "buttnuts." man, they smell bad. - TVarmy, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Personally, I don't like the ornamental pear tree blossom's smell. It's a bit like a nasty mix of semen and rotting fish, and the smell somehow gives me a headache. I'm guessing these are worse, though, because it's a fruit and people talk about getting it on their shoes. But at least you can grow ornamental cherry trees and get the same look without the smell. Granted, the blossoms from either ornamental pear or cherry trees are a pain to clean up when they fall off and blow indoors in the late spring.
- Auraness, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1It is said that the Dragon Warrior can survive for months off nothing but the dew of a single ginkgo leaf, and the energy of the universe.
- L0NER, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1MS is bribing people to search now?
- AriaStar, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Um, why not cut it down and remove all the roots?
- tee349, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Sensationalist title.
- Discola, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1I hate that smell, the most direct route to my classes goes directly under a Ginko tree, the bottoms of my shoes smell like the crushed fruit for hours.. bleh
- cyrix, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Uhhh...you want pics of a ginko tree? WTF...
- xero69, on 12/17/2008, -0/+1Gingo biloba widens the arteries promoting better blood flow. Sounds like the fruit or seeds could be an all natural viagra.
- Sautechef, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Ah ha! I was there a couple weeks ago and noticed the smell. I just figured the city was working on a sewer line nearby. That explains what I was smelling.
- sagenhoney, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Leave the Ginkgo trees alone please.
- IKORKYI, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Sapling Killers!
I am pro-foliage, and you are all going to hell if you think this is OK.
Birth control is just as bad as terminating the seeds after the third germination trimester. - Y0tsuya, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Call in the cavalry: the commercial loggers. They'll get the job done and thank you for it.
- xero69, on 12/17/2008, -0/+1Just replace the ginko trees with native trees that will feed and shelter local birds.
- inactive, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1These trees were probably injected with dikegulac-sodium, a plant growth regulator. Not always effective. They may consider ethephon as a foliar spray to minimize fruit production. Total elimination may be difficult as the bloom period of the ginko can be over a month long. The shorter the bloom duration of the tree, the easier it is to attain fruit elimination.
- ielephant, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Cut them down.
- rugabug, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Use a bicycle.
- sodade, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1I thought cannabis was the only plant that had a male and female version.
- pe5t1lence, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1And to get rid of the sharks? Mind Controlled Gorilla slaves.
- Primalid, on 12/29/2008, -0/+1Use to have one at my old house. The dogs thought they were wonderful.
- Avare, on 04/23/2009, -0/+0Poor man...
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- passedoutghost, on 12/15/2008, -1/+1And to get rid of the bears we introduce sharks with frikin' lasers.
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