If you have ever been around one of these trees, you know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s strong and completely unmistakable. When it blooms in the springtime, it smells almost exactly like human semen fresh from the tap.
I can’t really describe it except to say it is a deciduous tree with small leaves that grows about 15M high, small blossoms, and does not bear fruit. I have only ever seen it as an ornamental. Who would use a cum tree as an ornamental, I care not to speculate.
It is also not a gingko, the female of which species I am given to believe smells like dog vomit.
In the tree I’m talking about, I neglected to mention but the blossoms are small and whitish. The petals drop like snowflakes in the spring. So it doesn’t sound like a carob tree.
I keep getting google hits on pear trees, Bradford pear trees. I have seen trees that I know to be Bradford pear, but they were not in the right place or season to make a side-by-side comparison to the cum tree.
Not a chestnut tree. The cum tree is more vertical and the leaves and branches are more sparse… not really suitable to be a shade tree as the chestnut is.
Can’t get photos, unfortunately, because there are none around my location as far as I know. It came to mind because I heard someone talking about them.
First off, where are you located? That’s an important factor in people figuring out bloom/ plant specifics. Carob is not a plant that overwinters in most US locations, so the bloom/stink time is not likely now…spring, not at all.
I’ve seen/smelled them here in Denver, too, and they aren’t ginkgo or cherry blossom. And they aren’t the same as the link that elelle provided. Around here, the tree always leafs around the same time that it blooms, so the tree is never all white.
Several of them grow in my neighborhood and there are a few that I always pass by when walking to the grocery store. I think they’re used ornamentally, as I’ve never seen them have any sort of fruit. And yes, they smell quite strongly of semen.
Well, now, I’m afraid I have to admit to never having noticed an odor in semen, and I have been around my own for a long long time. I have, I will also confess, had some experience with the semen of others (details will NOT follow). In no case have I ever been aware of an odor. I have also never had a partner comment on my LACK of odor. That may be out of a respect for my sensitive feelings, but I rather think it is because said odor is not only not universal, but is only present in a minority of males. Does anyone have the straight dope on how many men exhibit this quality? And, without referencing the tree in question, can anyone describe this odor? xo C.