No, they surely referred to "college campus" with their comment!
A college campus traditionally refers to the land and buildings of a college or university. This will often include libraries, lecture halls, student centers and, for residential universities, residence halls and dining halls.
The people I know who say Bradford pears smell awful say they smell like piss, not cum.
All of the people I know who say Bradford smell like piss also have the cilantro tastes like soap gene so I always wonder if the two are related or just a coincidence in the small sample size.
I like cilantro and think Bradford pears have a strong smell like many plants do, but it doesn't remind me of anything in particular.
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.
That's a different tree, we have (because we plant it) the Callery pear which smells like sperm and a bloody nose combined, they chose it because of the root size and height and I guess they also couldn't smell.
Some trees are pollinated by beetles, flies, or other insects that might normally be attracted to rotting flesh. As a result, they often emit a more meaty odor. Why cum specifically I can't say but I think cum has certain organic molecules in common with dead things.
I almost did a joke re: dead things and sex, which was meant to be self depreciating.... But it kept sounding like i was stanning necrophilia. So here we are.
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.
Reproductive organs smelling like reproductive organs isn't that weird, now that I think about it, reproductive organs smelling like flowers are weird...
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.
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
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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harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 89 pts · 48d
On the bright side, you can masturbate around them and no one will know! By smell at least.
Dojan@pawb.social · 44 pts · 48d
Unless the tree narcs on you.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 48d
God damn talking trees, snitching bastards all of em
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 48d
Damn, I wish I'd read your second sentence.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 48d
Yeah my college campus had an area with Bradford pear trees and that definitely created more than one awkward conversation.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 48d
Wait, a what?
snooggums@piefed.world · 62 pts · 48d
An awkward conversation is a conversation that feels awkward, often due to the subject being socially taboo.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 20 pts · 48d
But that’s not important right now. Don’t call me Shirley.
snooggums@piefed.world · 8 pts · 48d
Do you like movies about gladiators?
jim_v@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 48d
Gladiator? I hardly know her!
M137@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 48d
No, they surely referred to "college campus" with their comment!
A college campus traditionally refers to the land and buildings of a college or university. This will often include libraries, lecture halls, student centers and, for residential universities, residence halls and dining halls.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 48d
Like a conversation about why everything smells like cum amongst a bunch of 18 to 23 year olds.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 48d
Since no one has given you a serious answer yet, Bradford Pears are the type of tree that smells like male ejaculate.
They even make these long strands that are covered in their tree jizz (pollen)
snooggums@piefed.world · 7 pts · 48d
The people I know who say Bradford pears smell awful say they smell like piss, not cum.
All of the people I know who say Bradford smell like piss also have the cilantro tastes like soap gene so I always wonder if the two are related or just a coincidence in the small sample size.
I like cilantro and think Bradford pears have a strong smell like many plants do, but it doesn't remind me of anything in particular.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 48d
They must consider you "polite society" so they say piss instead of jizz.
I love cilantro, it tastes like heaven not soap. But bradford pears smell like jizz.
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 48d
Nope, one is my wife who laughed the first time she saw a meme about it smelling like cum and speculated they mixed up their trees.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 48d
huh, i don't think cilantro tastes like soap, but i think bradford pears smell like cat piss. Our fucking HOA decided to use them as landscaping.
shroomato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 48d
I thought those were linden trees
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 48d
Maybe you're right and I got them mixed up. There could be more than one awful-smelling tree
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 48d
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 pts · 48d
They smell like vomit.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 48d
Some places they eat the fruit, like Japan and China
7eter@feddit.org · 3 pts · 48d
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 pts · 48d
uh, why? 🍐ԅ( ͒ ͒ )
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 48d
Yeah, the meme is fine but OP got the wrong tree in the title. Should be the callery pear.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 48d
Isn't all pollen basically tree cum?
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 21 pts · 48d
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 pts · 48d
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 pts · 48d
Well, the pollen does grow an enormous (relatively) schlong to deliver its sperm into the stamen...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 48d
keep typing i'm almost there
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 47d
Trees are just inverted root systems
snooggums@piefed.world · 20 pts · 48d
Yeah, but why does it sometimes smell like mammal cum?
7eter@feddit.org · 10 pts · 48d
I don't know WHY. But the relevant tree is called (Götterbaum in German) or Tree of Heaven - beautiful
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 48d
Fucking hate trees of heaven, they should be called Trees from Hell. Invasive little shits grow everywhere
MML@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 48d
That's a different tree, we have (because we plant it) the Callery pear which smells like sperm and a bloody nose combined, they chose it because of the root size and height and I guess they also couldn't smell.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 48d
Some trees are pollinated by beetles, flies, or other insects that might normally be attracted to rotting flesh. As a result, they often emit a more meaty odor. Why cum specifically I can't say but I think cum has certain organic molecules in common with dead things.
MJKee9@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 48d
I almost did a joke re: dead things and sex, which was meant to be self depreciating.... But it kept sounding like i was stanning necrophilia. So here we are.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 48d
Doesn't cum just smell like bleach or avocado? Nothing in particular?
snooggums@piefed.world · 6 pts · 48d
It definitely smells like salty bodily fluids.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 48d
My nose is not so good for that, so feel free to cum anywhere, I won't figure it out.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 48d
That's the strangest invite to a bukkake party I've ever gotten. I'm down.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 46d
The bleachiness is in the nose, and it's flourine, which smells very like, but distinct to chlorine, which is in most bleaches.
You detect saltiness with your tongue, not your nose.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 46d
Yes, it was very fucking salty, like chemical burn, unnatural saltiness.
T156@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 46d
I've never had an avocado that smelt like bleach. Are they supposed to smell like that?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 48d
https://youtu.be/aoqlYGuZGVM
laranis@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 48d
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ViperActual@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 48d
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 pts · 48d
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 pts · 48d
Relevant Mitchell&Webb
muhyb@programming.dev · 18 pts · 48d
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 48d
You're a wizard, Harry
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 48d
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 pts · 48d
Smh outed themselves as gooners who can't even tell anymore
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 46d
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 pts · 47d
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 pts · 46d
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
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 48d
marretics@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 48d
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 · 9 pts · 48d
You might be fine with a small potted plant, but yeah they stink.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 48d
Hm? Can't confirm. My parents have a huge one, doesn't smell.
phar@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 48d
Gross
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 48d
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 pts · 48d
No but you're eating a dead wasp every time you eat a fig! The More You Know™
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 48d
Cumtrees also have a right to exist
Zomg@piefed.world · 12 pts · 48d
Bradford Pear tree next
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 48d
Pretty flowers they remind me of my dearly departed Harold.
dkppunk@piefed.social · 5 pts · 48d
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 · 3 pts · 48d
Jacarandandfindout!
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 47d
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.