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[-] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 87 points 4 weeks ago

On the bright side, you can masturbate around them and no one will know! By smell at least.

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 45 points 4 weeks ago

Unless the tree narcs on you.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 27 points 4 weeks ago

God damn talking trees, snitching bastards all of em

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

Those ~~sheep~~ trees are liars!

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Damn, I wish I'd read your second sentence.

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 65 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah my college campus had an area with Bradford pear trees and that definitely created more than one awkward conversation.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 weeks ago

Like a conversation about why everything smells like cum amongst a bunch of 18 to 23 year olds.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 54 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Ginkgo trees don't have flowers. They are gymnosperms like pines, firs, spruces, cedars etc. They produce cones.

Their "fruit" smell like ass though. Not even fruit, just a fleshy pine cone of sorts.

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 15 points 4 weeks ago

They smell like vomit.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 weeks ago

Not even fruit, just a fleshy pine cone of sorts.

Some places they eat the fruit, like Japan and China

[-] 7eter@feddit.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah they actually are not to bad tastewise. Just be sure to use gloves when handling the raw fruits with the stinky flesh around it.

I heard various things about their health benefits. But people seem to agree to only consune small amounts.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

uh, why? 🍐ԅ( ͒ ۝ ͒ )

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, the meme is fine but OP got the wrong tree in the title. Should be the callery pear.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 42 points 4 weeks ago

Isn't all pollen basically tree cum?

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 21 points 4 weeks ago

No, it's genetically the offspring of the plant, and contains at least one non-reproductive cell. Pollen produces the male gametes, so the seeds created from it produce the 3rd generation of plant, genetically speaking. (1st gen is pollen producer, 2nd gen is pollen, 3rd gen is seed.) It's basically an ultra-minimal gametophyte stage.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago

So it's tree...pre...cum? Wait, no, the tree is throwing his balls into the air, but he also grows more balls..?

Why did I even start typing today?

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago

Well, the pollen does grow an enormous (relatively) schlong to deliver its sperm into the stamen...

[-] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Trees are just inverted root systems

[-] ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

I thought this for the longest time until I fell down a rabbit hole a while back. Pollen is literally the tree's offspring in the form of microscopic plants. When the flowers of a tree are fertilized, the pollen literally grow into the actual reproductive parts of the plant to begin the fertilization process.

[-] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 33 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Reproductive organs smelling like reproductive organs isn't that weird, now that I think about it, reproductive organs smelling like flowers are weird...

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 26 points 4 weeks ago
[-] muhyb@programming.dev 18 points 4 weeks ago
[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

You're a wizard, Harry

[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 14 points 4 weeks ago

Cumtrees also have a right to exist

[-] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

I absolutely hate Bradford pears but people in the south LOVE planting them. Damn fools, I say!

I have friends that apparently can't even smell them 🫩

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Smh outed themselves as gooners who can't even tell anymore

[-] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I tried getting them with this by asking if they could smell them and all I got was "it's 50/50 because of my allergies"

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

The people who owned our house before us planted one in our front yard. We didn't realize what it was until a couple years after we had lived here and it started sprouting its flowers. Even then it took us a while to realize where that smell is coming from. Now the thing is fucking huge and taking it down would be incredibly difficult and expensive because of where it's planted. So 3 weeks out of the year we just don't go outside and keep our windows closed... 😑

P.S. we do not live in the south. I don't even understand why this thing is here.

[-] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

The only good news about it being massive is that if the wind blows a little too hard it'll crack in half!

Image of a large Bradford pear tree that has a large limb broken from the trunk

[-] Zomg@piefed.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Bradford Pear tree next

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

figs have entered the chat

[-] marretics@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 weeks ago

Please don't tell me figs smell like cum as well! My wife just got a fig tree for our patio

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

You might be fine with a small potted plant, but yeah they stink.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Hm? Can't confirm. My parents have a huge one, doesn't smell.

[-] phar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago
[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 4 weeks ago

Fig didn't smell like cum, not that I can tell what cum smells like, given that I have been covered in it so much, I can't smell it at all.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

No but you're eating a dead wasp every time you eat a fig! The More You Know™

[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 weeks ago

Pretty flowers they remind me of my dearly departed Harold.

[-] dkppunk@piefed.social 7 points 4 weeks ago

We have this other tree that’s grown around here a lot. It has the most beautiful explosion of purple flowers every spring. Then it just smells like cum all day lol

[-] Bonus@mander.xyz 4 points 4 weeks ago

Jacarandandfindout!

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 3 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah there was a tree that was flowering for like 3 weeks in june and it made ma want to puke it smelled so bad. Still have no clue what tree it was and it was luckily only where I worked and not where I live. So I did not have to smell it constantly.

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