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This is the second recent local (to me) story about ginkgo trees being removed. The first was due to road construction, but this one is everyone’s favorite reason to cut down a ginkgo tree:
Crews were out in downtown Mishawaka on Wednesday replacing 10 of the city’s female ginkgo trees with 10 male trees.
The problem with the female trees is that they produce fruit that looks like berries. Webster’s New World College Dictionary calls the fruit “foul-smelling.”
Honestly, did the reporter actually need to fall back on a dictionary definition to know that ginkgo nuts smell like dog poop?
Local businessman Mike Richard had a more colorful description:
“Thank God we’re getting rid of the Roman vomitorium,” he said. “I’ve wanted those things gone from downtown for years.”