Semen Trees
 

Has anyone else observed the phenomenom of trees that smell like semen (usually during the fall or spring, I can't remember which)? If so, where have you smelled them? And any theories on which type of tree is the culprit?

The Straight Dope has adressed this topic but the evidence seems inconclusive:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_363.html

In those columns they suggest that semen trees are only found in southern California, but I and several friends of mine have smelled semen trees in NJ (yeah yeah insert NJ smell joke here)

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1.) Who could possibly not click this thread with a title like that?

2.) Semen has a smell!?

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uh wtf?

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OP, I know exactly what you're talking about, there was a tree at my high school that smelled remarkably like semen. This was in So Cal though, not NJ.

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There was a bush on campus that was known as the cum bush. Again, southern CA.

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Yes. Several blocks in the East Village smell like semen a for a couple of weeks in the spring.

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I've noticed this phenomenon in the spring near DC.

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It's a Bradford Pear tree, and yeah, they do smell like semen. They have them here in the Southeast too. Hate them.

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My friend in Phoenix had some in her front yard. Go out for a smoke and smell come. Lovely.

KJS