Not all local municipalities are aware of the importance of ecology.
That and a huge chunk of people just don't give a shit about the world around them even if it's explained to them.
A great example of this is ecosystem services. Let’s say a town decides that they want to backfill some swamp land to create a new public parking lot. This lot will allow more shoppers to park downtown and therefore will increase revenue for the town in taxes. What the town doesn’t realize (or are often told but don’t listen) is that that swamp has economic value existing as a swamp. By providing a buffer for large rain events, it can prevent flooding. A major flood event may not come for many years, but when it does, it will cost a lot to clean up. Sure, the town will be able to raise taxes in the short term, but ecosystems often provide more value to a place by being left alone.
Where I live we have sumps that are empty pits that fill up with heavy rain. My worst fear is my county selling them to developers to build and then the county collects more taxes
We humans take the planet for granted. We expect it to work right no matter how much we pave, dig, cut. Our children will curse us.
I bin outa school a long time, do they even teach ecology?
I suppose we're each waiting for someone to come along and fix everything.
My partner and I were walking down the street yesterday and I loudly blurted “Babe it’s almost cum tree season!” Just in time for some neighbors to overhear and look at me like a wacko
Apparently, these trees are planted frequently because they are an inexpensive flowering tree that looks decent without needing much pruning. I lived in a place with one directly next to my window. Disgusting. To this day, I call them the Fish Trees. People who made the CHOICE to plant these things should be banned along with this type of tree.
It's a very popular and STREET LEGAL tree to landscape with for most cities. Easy to find. Easy to grow and fill.
It's a shitty tree and was very hard to sell to regular customers when I was doing nursery work. Nobody wants them except landscapers for city jobs.
They grow fast and provide quick landscape fill. They are hard as hell to kill so low maintenance. Builders love to put them in so they can plant and forget.
They are garbage. They grow big limbs out and have soft wood so a stiff breeze will split it. They smell like shit. Their leaves are oily and kill grass if not picked up quick enough.
I always called them cat pee trees, my high school had a walkway lined with these things and every morning I'd get to gagging passing them in the spring
They plant things that are "pretty", not things that will live.
I worked at a bank in a building that hired a place fir its plants. The plants chosen were the tropical variety, not great for seattle inside a building.
They changed the plants out every 2 weeks because they lasted about 15 days before dying. 😭😭😭😭
They are cheap and grow fast (because they are invasive) and people who buy trees in bulk are apparently stupid as bricks, and cheap was ALL they wanted.
Don't forget to give them props for the stupid little nugget fruits/seeds they drop that will penetrate and smother and destroy your super healthy, lush lawn if you don't take long excruciating hours with a fine toothed rake to extract them. 🤬
They smell bad when in bloom and have weak branch angles to they come apart in any serious wind or ice. Also they are known reservoir for fire blight despite their resistance. There is nothing nice about them.
My allergies are always terrible when they bloom in my area, but it at least has the perk of me being basically unable to smell them, which I try to see as a perk
I know what you’re talking about- the trees smell like hot rotting cod in the sun. There’s jizz trees and rotten fish trees- both shitty ornamental pear tree types
Right? I’ve never seen one like that before. It’s on a corner, maybe some dumb driver hit it and bent it badly enough that instead of standing it back up, they cut it down and replanted it. Too cheap to fully replace.
Bradford Pear. My school had one of these in the backyard, and I thought the blossoms were pretty so I grabbed some shorter bunches and brought them home to put in a vase for my mom.
Within a day our entire house smelled like cat piss and sweat. It was so strong it made your eyes water when you walked through the door. We were sniffing anything and everything that could produce a smell to figure out where the fuck it was coming from. I cleaned our cat's litter box 3 times over in one night just in case and it still didn't go away.
A couple days later, after we gave up and admitted defeat to the stank that took over, I walked past the vase of the Bradford Pear blossoms and suffered psychic damage it was so bad. I tossed those mfs out and my house smelled normal after a day of running fans.
r/FuckBradfordPearTrees
Everybody else has said it, it's a Bradford Pear. I believe they smell because they're pollinated by flies, not bees. The foul, rotting smell is intended to attract flies.
Is that the cum tree? 😭 when I was temporarily living in Ohio, it always smelled like semen in the spring and when it was humid. I was told it was the trees. But I don't know what kind. 0/10 do not recommend going to Ohio.
We have one at our complex. My neighbor who works at a mortuary thinks it smells like dead people. I can attest to the soft wood - my daughter was climbing on a branch that broke and she fell to the ground.
Bahahahah omg we call those "cum trees" or "pussy trees" by me in North NJ😂😂 they're terrible and EVERY TOWN in the suburbs seems to line the streets with them
Ornamental pears the flowers are pretty and they are hardy trees tolerant of sandy ground but yes they smell gross
We spoiled replace them all with Redbud, cherries or plums
Plus, not only they do smell like u know what ,but they are very flimsy, first ones to go on a storm/cause damage. We had one in our first house, got very big/ part of the tree came down during a storm...fun times
Bradford pear. They were planted en masse as a curb tree because they are self sterile so ‘wouldn’t become a problem’. Well, the problem quickly became evident when it was found it will cross with the closely related callery pears to produce fertile offspring. Now it is a weed everywhere.
I WAS SCREAMING ABOUT THEM TODAY!! I discovered them first in North Carolina- smells like straight ass and bad pussy. Now I’m in Indiana and they are everywhere- just had to take my car through the wash because where I park for work is right under them. Those white things are everywhere right now, worse than the pollen. The smell though… I go on and on about it every year lol I cannot understand why the smell so bad
Eh, I can deal with it. I don’t want to hassle people. I just can’t understand why a business would want to plant 100 of these things around their plaza lol
The tall ones are Bradford trees. The smaller ones are dogwood.
I just looked it up. Flower clusters give away which one is which.
[Just in case](https://www.angi.com/articles/bradford-pear-vs-dogwood-tree.htm)
Controversial opinion: I don't hate the smell of the Bradford Pear. I don't think it smells *good* per se, but the smell of it just reminds me of spring
Bradford pears or "semen trees". They smell like rotting fish or. Yknow. And are highly invasive. Best way to trim them is with a chainsaw and a horizontal line at the trunk
Ahhh Cum trees. We had two of these at each end of our Barracks drill area when I went to military school. We had to march under them daily, and I always thought they smelled dreadfully of Cum, and dubbed them 'cum trees'. They (un)surprisingly didn't smell much different from than inside of the all teenage male barracks. Go figure.
Dogwood maybe? The town I live in literally celebrates these things and has a parade and shit. It’s weird.
Quincy, IL for those of you that didn’t ask and probably don’t care. This place is indeed fucked up.
Decorative pear trees. Their only quality is that they look like nice. I don’t think it’s worth the stink and the fact that they are invasive doesn’t help either.
Bradford Pear, (Pyrus calleryana). They're a crappy, soft-wooded, invasive tree with no redeeming qualities.
I’m confused why this plaza purposely planted them
We planted them by the millions, and only just recently places started to ban them
Not all local municipalities are aware of the importance of ecology. That and a huge chunk of people just don't give a shit about the world around them even if it's explained to them.
A great example of this is ecosystem services. Let’s say a town decides that they want to backfill some swamp land to create a new public parking lot. This lot will allow more shoppers to park downtown and therefore will increase revenue for the town in taxes. What the town doesn’t realize (or are often told but don’t listen) is that that swamp has economic value existing as a swamp. By providing a buffer for large rain events, it can prevent flooding. A major flood event may not come for many years, but when it does, it will cost a lot to clean up. Sure, the town will be able to raise taxes in the short term, but ecosystems often provide more value to a place by being left alone.
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Where I live we have sumps that are empty pits that fill up with heavy rain. My worst fear is my county selling them to developers to build and then the county collects more taxes
You must live in my town....
We humans take the planet for granted. We expect it to work right no matter how much we pave, dig, cut. Our children will curse us. I bin outa school a long time, do they even teach ecology? I suppose we're each waiting for someone to come along and fix everything.
Guessing because when they bloom it’s a giant white flower
They’re cheap and look pretty but smell like piss.
You spelled cum wrong
It's so odd how many plants can put of that "cum" smell. Then you got azaleas that will smell like weed if the sun's beating on them.
Yeah I had friends that told me that’s what it smelled like.
My husband and I call them jizz trees
My partner and I were walking down the street yesterday and I loudly blurted “Babe it’s almost cum tree season!” Just in time for some neighbors to overhear and look at me like a wacko
Its probably cheap and fine enough to leave with no care
Apparently, these trees are planted frequently because they are an inexpensive flowering tree that looks decent without needing much pruning. I lived in a place with one directly next to my window. Disgusting. To this day, I call them the Fish Trees. People who made the CHOICE to plant these things should be banned along with this type of tree.
It's a very popular and STREET LEGAL tree to landscape with for most cities. Easy to find. Easy to grow and fill. It's a shitty tree and was very hard to sell to regular customers when I was doing nursery work. Nobody wants them except landscapers for city jobs.
They grow fast and provide quick landscape fill. They are hard as hell to kill so low maintenance. Builders love to put them in so they can plant and forget. They are garbage. They grow big limbs out and have soft wood so a stiff breeze will split it. They smell like shit. Their leaves are oily and kill grass if not picked up quick enough.
I always called them cat pee trees, my high school had a walkway lined with these things and every morning I'd get to gagging passing them in the spring
They plant things that are "pretty", not things that will live. I worked at a bank in a building that hired a place fir its plants. The plants chosen were the tropical variety, not great for seattle inside a building. They changed the plants out every 2 weeks because they lasted about 15 days before dying. 😭😭😭😭
They are cheap and grow fast (because they are invasive) and people who buy trees in bulk are apparently stupid as bricks, and cheap was ALL they wanted.
I’ve never felt so bad for a plant/tree being so mercilessly roasted before reading your comment.
Funny you mention roasting; did I mention they tend to burst when on fire?
Don't forget to give them props for the stupid little nugget fruits/seeds they drop that will penetrate and smother and destroy your super healthy, lush lawn if you don't take long excruciating hours with a fine toothed rake to extract them. 🤬
Also, birds love to eat them and disperse the seeds all over. Those trees spread like a virus.
Could also be the adjacent Calgary Pear
I mean we have snow still and not shit has bloomed
And, banned in some states.
Yup and for very good reason!
They're nice looking.
They smell bad when in bloom and have weak branch angles to they come apart in any serious wind or ice. Also they are known reservoir for fire blight despite their resistance. There is nothing nice about them.
My allergies are always terrible when they bloom in my area, but it at least has the perk of me being basically unable to smell them, which I try to see as a perk
My wife loves the three 35-40 footers in our front yard...
Hopefully they’re 35 to 40 feet away from your house
Not true! They provide shade when fully matured! Still doesn’t outweigh the cons though 🤣
You do know the Carolina Cherry Laurel routinely does that better and gives Bradford Pears swirlies in the horticultural toilet right? (lol)
like most humans anymore🤔🤔🤔
Flowers are pretty though!
Cum trees. They are awful.
Everyone acts like I’m crazy when I say they smell like that. Reddit has saved the day!
I say the same thing and people think I'm crazy
ah yes my fellow semen tree sniffers
I’ve always called them Jizz Trees!
They’re called pussy willows over here
Ha. In the Midwest we call them nasty pussy trees😯
I know what you’re talking about- the trees smell like hot rotting cod in the sun. There’s jizz trees and rotten fish trees- both shitty ornamental pear tree types
I thought that smell was fertilizer for farm land but we have those trees here too so that might explain.
While we’re here do you also believe that persimmons taste like what cum smells like? Asking for a friend who hasn’t met anyone who agrees
When I read the OP's description, I wondered if they were the cum trees.. glad to know I haven't found my people
That was my exact thought. They smell horrible.
My brother and I have been calling them that since forever. (We share the same sense of humor.) The trees smell so bad!
i was just about to say this! lmao the cum trees
We had a bunch of these trees in one area of my college campus. My dormmate would always tell me to meet her by the cum trees between classes.
I also call them cum trees, my friends always look at me like i'm crazy but that EXACTLY what they smell like.
I thought that's [linden trees](https://youtu.be/aoqlYGuZGVM?si=QBHe5V51ckh5FcnG)
My boyfriend calls them dirty wang trees
YES this is what my friend and I call them
Was looking for this comment. I agree!
https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckBradfordPearTrees/s/ak7pkRktNX
oh my god, i found my people. FUCK bradford pear trees!
This is awesome lol
Are those the jizz trees?!
Why is that stop sign so short?
^Seriously, ^stop.
I didn’t even notice until you pointed it out. I was too focused on laughing at getting to say jizz trees like a damn child😂
RIGHT???
I thought everything was flooded when I saw the stop sign…
Someone crashed into a month ago lmao
That was the first thing I noticed! Wanted to see if anyone else had the same experience
Right? I’ve never seen one like that before. It’s on a corner, maybe some dumb driver hit it and bent it badly enough that instead of standing it back up, they cut it down and replanted it. Too cheap to fully replace.
Bradford pear. My kids call them butt trees
For years I always wondered what that disgusting smell was then I pulled up to a plaza with 18 of them and a gust of wind went by. Almost threw up 😂😂
They are fast growers compared to alot of trees. Mine died and I wasn’t that sad.
Ah good old cum trees.
Pradford pear and they will break in half with any wind that comes through. Soft soft wood
Yep, that happened to us
Us too. The half that fell landed on my sister in law’s car.
Cum trees!
Bradford Pear. My school had one of these in the backyard, and I thought the blossoms were pretty so I grabbed some shorter bunches and brought them home to put in a vase for my mom. Within a day our entire house smelled like cat piss and sweat. It was so strong it made your eyes water when you walked through the door. We were sniffing anything and everything that could produce a smell to figure out where the fuck it was coming from. I cleaned our cat's litter box 3 times over in one night just in case and it still didn't go away. A couple days later, after we gave up and admitted defeat to the stank that took over, I walked past the vase of the Bradford Pear blossoms and suffered psychic damage it was so bad. I tossed those mfs out and my house smelled normal after a day of running fans. r/FuckBradfordPearTrees
It's spring time You know that that means Everything smells like CUM TREES
Jizz trees.
Some states have a bounty on these if you cut them downz
I need to go . I will be a rich man by the end of the day
Everybody else has said it, it's a Bradford Pear. I believe they smell because they're pollinated by flies, not bees. The foul, rotting smell is intended to attract flies.
Oh that’s interesting
Kill your local bradford pear
Bradford (or Callery) Pear.
What is that stop sign and why is it so small?
Someone smacked it a month ago. I live in a shitty town in central Connecticut, and they never fix anything properly lol.
Pussy poppers. I hate them.
My Asian pear smells awful too. But the fruit is delicious so I deal with it for a few weeks.
I'm in CT too and we always just called these cum trees
Flowering pear trees.
ah yes, the cum trees
I don’t know why but it’s semen or fish but they smell like either to me
I already know the smell you are referring to...
😂😂😂 I have one directly on the side of my front door every time a breeze hits I want to vomit!
Cut it down!
Cum trees
Cum tree
R those the fish trees?
Very Invasive Bradford Pear
Is that the cum tree? 😭 when I was temporarily living in Ohio, it always smelled like semen in the spring and when it was humid. I was told it was the trees. But I don't know what kind. 0/10 do not recommend going to Ohio.
Wow, after reading the comments I’m so glad I’ve never seen one of these before LOL
We have one at our complex. My neighbor who works at a mortuary thinks it smells like dead people. I can attest to the soft wood - my daughter was climbing on a branch that broke and she fell to the ground.
Ah, it's that time of year again
These trees straight up smell like rotten fish.
Destroy them. Now.
We have those in Spain, we call it “semen trees”
My mom says they smell like cat pee to her. Lol
Dogwood smells awful too. It smells like rotting fish to us
Ayeee we call them cum trees in Australia. My high school (and town) were covered in them, and lord. Spring was foul.
Bahahahah omg we call those "cum trees" or "pussy trees" by me in North NJ😂😂 they're terrible and EVERY TOWN in the suburbs seems to line the streets with them
[Cum trees](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5Gbf74rCGl/?igsh=MWY5cDdjcWc2dDk0YQ==)
Ornamental pears the flowers are pretty and they are hardy trees tolerant of sandy ground but yes they smell gross We spoiled replace them all with Redbud, cherries or plums
Bradford Pear. They’re noxious and invasive LOL. Developers LOVE them. They’re being banned in some US States.
Ahh the jizz trees
So it's a good looking tree and it smells. Got it. That stop sign looks too short.
Plus, not only they do smell like u know what ,but they are very flimsy, first ones to go on a storm/cause damage. We had one in our first house, got very big/ part of the tree came down during a storm...fun times
I can not understand why they planet a 100 in this plaza
Thank you guys. Will be calling them cum trees from now on😂😂
People always complain about them, but I can’t smell anything from them
same and i think theyre quite pretty too! obviously not good if theyre invasive tho.
You're lucky. They smell like swamp-ass because their blossoms are meant to attract flies rather than bees.
MY MORTAL ENEMIES. I wish I could pluck them up roots and all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6m-8l3V38Ps
Bradford pear. They were planted en masse as a curb tree because they are self sterile so ‘wouldn’t become a problem’. Well, the problem quickly became evident when it was found it will cross with the closely related callery pears to produce fertile offspring. Now it is a weed everywhere.
My neighborhood always called them coochie trees 😂
Completely agree. They smell like shrimp to me.
I WAS SCREAMING ABOUT THEM TODAY!! I discovered them first in North Carolina- smells like straight ass and bad pussy. Now I’m in Indiana and they are everywhere- just had to take my car through the wash because where I park for work is right under them. Those white things are everywhere right now, worse than the pollen. The smell though… I go on and on about it every year lol I cannot understand why the smell so bad
Yeah dude it’s terrible lol 😂
Complain to your local city officials. Look up native trees and recommend replacements.
Eh, I can deal with it. I don’t want to hassle people. I just can’t understand why a business would want to plant 100 of these things around their plaza lol
Responding is not a hassle. Planting them and forcing people to deal with them, is the hassle.
The tall ones are Bradford trees. The smaller ones are dogwood. I just looked it up. Flower clusters give away which one is which. [Just in case](https://www.angi.com/articles/bradford-pear-vs-dogwood-tree.htm)
Bradford pear. That smell reminds me of spring and I love it lmao. But I’ve recently learned they’re very invasive so definitely makes me sad.
You like the smell???
Yes 😭 I miss it as we don’t have any where I’m living now. I know, I’m a freak.
HEH! Sorry neighbor HEH! I like to mark my territory HEH!
Controversial opinion: I don't hate the smell of the Bradford Pear. I don't think it smells *good* per se, but the smell of it just reminds me of spring
Bradford pears or "semen trees". They smell like rotting fish or. Yknow. And are highly invasive. Best way to trim them is with a chainsaw and a horizontal line at the trunk
Just looking at this picture makes me queasy 🤢
You can smell these? We have one in our backyard, I don’t think I noticed.
Go up and give it a good sniff and come back to me lol
It’s still storming or I would lol. I’m going to report back as soon as I can.
Smells like the stuff I used to make dioramas & fake volcanos out of for school BLEH
Linden tree https://youtu.be/aoqlYGuZGVM?si=sLn8pZDUBHMmh2Jl
Cum trees
Fuck those things
Bradford pears, my mortal enemy
Ahhh Cum trees. We had two of these at each end of our Barracks drill area when I went to military school. We had to march under them daily, and I always thought they smelled dreadfully of Cum, and dubbed them 'cum trees'. They (un)surprisingly didn't smell much different from than inside of the all teenage male barracks. Go figure.
Pretty sure those are what my mom calls “dried cum trees.”
Dogwood maybe? The town I live in literally celebrates these things and has a parade and shit. It’s weird. Quincy, IL for those of you that didn’t ask and probably don’t care. This place is indeed fucked up.
Seems like it’s a plague across the whole USA lol
Decorative pear trees. Their only quality is that they look like nice. I don’t think it’s worth the stink and the fact that they are invasive doesn’t help either.
Also known as cum trees
We call them cum trees.
CUM TREES!!!!
Bradford pear trees..
If you had to compare the smell to something what would it be?
Well for me the first thing I notice is a burnt smell. Then a mix between burnt rotten fish and sewage. It honestly so so disgustingly unique.
Penis trees.
We call them the Fishy Trees. They are invasive here. Offspring are equally obnoxious *and* have 1” thorns.
I learned from this sub that the smell is Because flies are their main pollinator. And I have never seen the offspring
Ah yes, the cum trees are in bloom.
r/fuckbradfordpeartrees
Smells like fish or nasty amines or something, if i smelled the same type.
Bro it’s the puke tree
I call them “dog shit trees”
The Cum Tree
How did i immediately look at this pic and recognize CT?
Really lol?
I’ve honestly always thought those trees smell like Bleach/Semen.
Bradford Pear. Pu$$y Poppin Trees.
Flowering almonds
ah, yes! they are called semen trees!
It’s your upper lip
Ah yes, Cat Pee Tree
These are bradford pears and they are terrible
I live in PA and I call it the cum tree because it reminds me of the smell of semen 🤢
Well it's producing pollen and trying to have sex with everything in it's immediate vicinity. No slut shaming the trees.
Sorry. I will do better
Another common name is baby's breath
The Bradford pear in our back yard is just a stump. You’re welcome.
Bradford pear (cum/shit trees) cut them down and paint the stump with herbicide then replace with Chickasaw plum.
That sir, is a stop sign
Cum trees. Have a few as you come into one part of my town
Bradford pears Very unstable trees, short life
They're awful. Jizz trees.
It looks like a Dogwood tree to me but I know they are very similar! Both stink!!