Tree that smell like sperm..??

Hi..!

Whenever I talk about plants, it's just remind me a very embarrassed moment in my life! I remember walking down a road along with few chestnut trees. And suddenly its just overwhelm with smell of semen! This couldn't be right. Then I've read that chestnut contain ingredient called spermindine, which is also can be found in sperm to keep the sperm survive. Is there any trees that has a very unpleasant and strong smell other than chestnut trees??? Could be an interesting topic for a research!

European Barberry bushes - I guess a similar smell (when blooming)

The linden tree, tilia cordata, is another one.

I'ld like to point out that the pretty flower in the opening post does not belong to the same tree as the rest of the pictures it's Aesculus hippocastanum not Castanea sativa I've never noticed a bad smell from my horsechestnut tree and I am not lucky enough to have a sweet chestnut. I have a couple of flowering bushes in my front garden that have a very sweet smell, so sweet it's vomit inducing if you get to close on a windstill day. And then American pawpaws are meant to have a terrible smell though mine are only 6 inches high so it's going to be a while before they flower.

carob

i usually refer to tree of heaven/ ailanthus as ‘stinktree’. crushing the leaves gives a kind of peanut butter smell, but when they’re flowering, it smells like the peanut butter is rotting. i know people that don’t mind the smell at all, and others like me who think it’s vile.

Jizz Trees

Stinky, pukey odor of the ginkgo tree. The fruit smells terrible.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/10/why_we_still_plant_smelly_ginkgo_trees.html

greg mosser wrote:i usually refer to tree of heaven/ ailanthus as ‘stinktree’. crushing the leaves gives a kind of peanut butter smell, but when they’re flowering, it smells like the peanut butter is rotting. i know people that don’t mind the smell at all, and others like me who think it’s vile.

This one, to me at least, has a very semen-like stench in-flower. Between that and it's invasive and destructive nature, I hate them with a bloody passion. "Tree of Heaven." Hah. "Tree of Semen," I say.

-CK

Bradford pears

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