# I pit semen trees and all involved parties. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607 "2004-11-08T06:56:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/21 "2004-11-08T18:53:15Z")
**NotMrKnowItAll** , They have them at Scripps College in Claremont, SoCal. But, as I recall, the pungent season is thankfully only a few weeks, so you’d have to get someone there to let you in on the timing. But it’s an awfully long way from Dallas. Perhaps you could come up with an easier way of arriving at a similar olfactory sensation. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/22 "2004-11-08T20:13:04Z")
And here I was thinking that my crotch smelled like wood. Who would’ve thunk it’d be the other way around… ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/23 "2004-11-08T22:50:25Z")
There’s a whole block of these Cum Trees over in Pacific Beach. It is affectionately known by my cohorts as “The Tunnel of Love” because the trees line both of the streets. It cracks me up _every time_. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/24 "2004-11-08T23:30:30Z")
> [@stately plump buck mulligan](#): > > I’ll make this relatively short: there are trees on my university campus that smell like semen. Strongly of semen. They smell like giving oral satisfaction to at least fifty men at once, which is about forty-seven and a half more than my personal upper limit. Hereabouts, the sperm-smelling trees are [ligustrum (Japanese privet)](http://www.lsuagcenter.com/invasive/japaneseprivet.asp). ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/25 "2004-11-08T23:51:28Z")
Ya know… now I can’t help but wonder what the selection pressure was which created the ‘sperm tree’ branch of the ol’ evolutionary tree. Some very… interesting… birds? ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/26 "2004-11-09T00:41:18Z")
Well, when you think about it, pollen _is_ basically tree jizz… ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/27 "2004-11-09T00:50:46Z")
In local weather news, the tree-jizz count is high. Allergy sufferers are advised to leave the house with condoms on their noses. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/28 "2004-11-09T00:56:17Z")
**spbm** , you’re my new favoritest poster. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/29 "2004-11-09T01:01:58Z")
Could it be Tree pheromones? I guess they need something to attract the opposite sex as well… Could they possibly be Hooker Eveningprimrose AKA. Oenothera hookeri? Or maybe the Juniperus occidentalis Hooker 😛 ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/30 "2004-11-09T01:24:13Z")
I love you, SDMB, for in the face of my whiny bitchings about semen trees, you provide me with laughter, empathy, warmth, love, and cold hard facts. And some firm lukewarm ones as well. Facts that is. Thanks everyone. ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/31 "2004-11-09T01:25:10Z")
> [@pencilpusher](#): > > … > Oenothera hookeri? I suspect Oenothera Onanosa. (Word play off Oenothera Speciosa.) ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/32 "2004-11-09T01:54:17Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > In local weather news, the tree-jizz count is high. Allergy sufferers are advised to leave the house with condoms on their noses. Maybe, just maybe, I won’t burst out quoting this when someone mentions their allergies at work tomorrow. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/33 "2004-11-09T03:20:00Z")
Tree-jizz. Now there’s a term that will make your next springtime jaunt in the woods mentally equivalent to being the receiver at a bukkake party. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/34 "2004-11-09T04:17:17Z")
> [@TonyF](#): > > Oddly, the day I discovered the cum trees was the same day I noticed cows had discovered oral sex. No joke. It was a bike ride to remember. That would make one _hell_ of a sig line. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/35 "2004-11-09T05:30:16Z")
Well, as bad as these trees sound (I’ve never encountered any), they can’t possibly be worse than ginko trees. In the fall, they drop thousands of squishy berries that smell exactly like dog crap. Back at campus (St. Joseph’s Uni., in Philly), we called 'em Shitberries. And some of us had to walk about a quarter-mile past the damn trees, tiptoeing because the sidewalk was caked with the berry remnants, and once you got that stuff on your shoes the smell wouldn’t come out for _days_. I’ll take a sperm tree any day over those horrid ginkos. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/36 "2004-11-09T05:52:09Z")
Quite a few fungi have a ‘spermatic odor’ as well. Pretty startling the first time you run across it in the field ( or in my case on a wet wood platform below a leaky water-heater on which was growing a might patch of _Peziza domestica/Pyronema domesticum_ ). - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/37 "2004-11-09T06:23:36Z")
At UVM, there is a stand of trees that smell like rotting flesh when in bloom. Apparently it’s to attract flies to spread pollen. Around late summer the smell carries for quite some distance. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/38 "2004-11-09T09:40:22Z")
Bad Vagina. Smells great at the time, but 36 hours later when your pubies are still stuck together… ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/39 "2004-11-09T10:01:37Z")
> [@stately plump buck mulligan](#): > > I love you, SDMB, for in the face of my whiny bitchings about semen trees, you provide me with laughter, empathy, warmth, love, and cold hard facts. And some firm lukewarm ones as well. Facts that is. > > Thanks everyone. Can you please put us out of our misery and have the tree identified. Cecils investigation has proved fruitless. Perhaps take a photo and post it so a botanist can identify it. If you send _me_ a photo I can have it identified for you. Please. This is one of the **great mysteries**. Ahhh, smell the cuntree air. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607/40 "2004-11-09T10:09:49Z")
> [@ava](#): > > The trees here smell like vagina. This quote fell off the end of my last post. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-semen-trees-and-all-involved-parties/273607.md?page=3)