# Jacaranda Trees **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 9, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517 "2013-06-09T01:38:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517/41 "2014-05-07T08:12:42Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > You two are not helping. Don’t harsh the grump! What do you want from us? Sell the god damned car or move. Hell, you’re getting off easy. I had to deal with Bird Shit from freaking Raptors. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517/42 "2014-05-07T10:36:07Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > How about a solution: plant these trees only well in the middle of people’s yards, parks, etc, so that they’re not near cars, and plant non-flowering/less messy trees near the sides of streets. I wish the asshole who planted a magnolia tree thought of that. Damn thing drops its petals on the sidewalk and the street and when they get crushed by cars and people, the petals get slimy. Actually, fuck the assholes who live there now for not keeping the petals cleaned up when they drop. It’s a beautiful tree, but the slimy petals suck. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517/43 "2014-05-07T13:52:16Z")
I was sure this pitting was going to be about the ungodly stench of the Jacarandas, which I refer to as “dog pee trees”. They are undeniably gorgeous and I wouldn’t live in my dream house for free if there was a Jacaranda near by. I didn’t notice anyone else mention the stink so maybe there’s a different strain in the southeast (I’m in Florida)? All I know is they make the neighborhood smell like an unwashed kennel. Bleccccch. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517/44 "2014-05-07T16:15:04Z")
We had a jacaranda tree in our yard in California, and I don’t remember any smell at all. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517/45 "2014-05-07T16:28:52Z")
I’d rather have those than the smelly jizz trees that are blooming near me. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517/46 "2014-05-07T16:49:33Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > I had never heard of these trees until I heard [this Robbie Fulks song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITxP9mmrPvE) I thought of the Dickies’ theme from “Killer Klowns From Outer Space”: _There’s cotton candy in their hands Says a polka-dotted man with a stalk of jacaranda They’re all diabolical bozos_ > [@MsRobyn](#): > > the slimy petals suck. Zuzu curses you. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517/47 "2014-05-07T18:48:48Z")
Jacarandas are another non-native species brought to California to screw up our environment. In Orange County, given our drought, a change would be nice: [http://www.backtonatives.org](http://www.backtonatives.org) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517/48 "2014-05-07T20:39:01Z")
> [@tntrvlngrl](#): > > I lived in south Florida and shopped in an area That was loaded with Jackaranda trees. They have pods the size of hand grenades and they do put dents in cars. You are thinking of some other tree. [This](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QoIwXYn42E8/TTYKtS3AT5I/AAAAAAAABuc/lHF_t6Osgm8/s1600/P1000078.jpg) is a Jacaranda seed pod - it’s like a potato chip. (I have three of these trees in my yard, so I know from what I speak) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517/49 "2014-05-08T07:11:56Z")
I’m not seeing any love for Crape Myrtle trees in this thread! They’re as pretty in late summer as any other trees mentioned here! As for gross messy trees, go to Honolulu and notice the mango trees! They are all over the place. They drop their mangoes all over the street and sidewalks. Mangoes are rather large fruit. So the cars squish them in the streets and pedestrians trample them on the sidewalks, and you have your streets and sidewalks coated in squished rotting stinking mango slime everywhere. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517.md?page=2)