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Ode to Autumn

Oct 16, 2005

Ginkgo Nuts

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Blogger Gail Hapke reminds us why ginkgo trees are not always welcome:

They stink.  They drop their nasty, smelly fruit on the pavement where I walk in the morning for exercise. If I wanted to live someplace where the pavements smell like vomit, I’d move to campus. The nuts apparently do not smell like vomit and are a prized ingredient in Chinese cuisine.

Read the rest at Scribal Terror.

Posted by Kelly Schmitt Youngberg

Comments on this entry

  • No offense :)

    The LEAVES are really pretty.

    Posted by gail on Sunday, October 16, 2005 at 7:07 PM

  • only on once occasion did I find a female Ginkgo smelly.  Her caretaker did not clean up after her.  He had left her berries to rot in the hot sweltering sun.  On all the other times I have dealt with the female Ginkgo I have not found her smelly at all.

    Posted by Oak Leaf on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 8:49 PM

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