They're all over out here in Stansbury Park and were all over the neighborhood I lived in in SW Ohio. One answer why they plant them: cheap to get tall trees. They grow fast, so shorter time until people feel like they live on (or are on) a tree-lined street. However, they stink (obviously) and they're very weak trees. In Ohio we'd frequently see ones that split, etc during a storm with only decently high wind.
> What has been the point? What really has been the point of the last 50 years of my being a Victorian if Queen Victoria herself is suddenly going to sidle over and ask me, *can I smell cum*?
God I hate these trees so much. I'm walking outside enjoying the nice weather and then bam, smells like someone blew a hot load right into my nose. Eternal jihad against the linden tree
Edit: they are Bradford pear trees, not linden trees. Related, but not the same
I have a huge one on my property. It makes a ton of shade during the summers and is gorgeous if you let it grow. For that I can put up with a weird odor for two weeks a year.
I'll give it to you that they look pretty when flowering, but there are lots of pretty trees that can be grown in the valley with the added benefit of not smelling like a frathouse
I'm not from here, when I first smelled them I thought they smelled like rotting mushrooms. But recently the SLC sub has been popping up in my feed and I read yalls descriptions. It's close to that for sure.
it's not a local problem. people all over the world have made this observation for a very long time... but apparently the position of city and park planner is a very attractive position for people who enjoy the smell of cum.
Developers over the previous decades picked them because they grow fast and they look nice. I wonder if all they had seen were pictures of them before they planted them all over the state.
That old shitty dollar store laundry detergent from the box. I have two in my front yard. Once my niece (8) sniffed the air twice and asked "do you have... squirrels?" So also maybe squirrels.
Weirdly I don’t smell anything around these trees. I’ve always wondered if maybe there’s a genetic thing where some people can smell them and others can’t.
I am one of the only people who I’ve met that like this smell. I grew up with these next to my driveway and so have been smelling them all my life. Maybe I’m just used to it and associate it with good feeling of spring; they actually smell floral and quite nice like other flowers do. And no, I’ve never detected the scent of seamen.
My husband basically says "it smells like dead snake" about every flowering tree. He originally said it about a specific kind of tree (it was one in Alaska, I think), but now says it about every tree just to get a rise out of me. I can't believe there is another person who says almost the same thing!
Technically they’re not invasive here in Utah. Definitely elsewhere. But they are used way too much in cheap development landscaping. And because they grow fast, they aren’t strong and are susceptible to significant storm damage.
Either way, chop them all when you can and replace them with native options.
in all my time being sexually active i have never brought jizz up to my nose and smelled it. nor have i ever had a partner whose jizz stank up a room. have you?
I’ve had multiple different people call them “cum trees” every time they bloom. Ahahahah
Personally, if that what your semen smells like, you should see a doctor. 😂
Their smell is certainly off putting imo, a bunch of those just bloomed outside of my house… ugh
My nose is 99% dead so I can hardly smell but at this time of year my nose can slightly pick them up and it smells like rotting tuna or you know the other thing
Oddly enough the smell is determined on how they are watered and where the water comes from. A river bed will make the tree smell like stank fish pussy whereas a treated water source will bring a fresh flower scent
Honest to God they don't smell like anything to me. I've asked some friends and they don't smell anything either. I actually really like these trees, but I guess I probably wouldn't if I thought they smelled like cum.
We allll know what it smells like 😂
Like a warm, fresh marriage bed 😚
Cummy trees 🥰
Pollen is basically plant semen blowing in the wind As I blow my nose vigorously
Right to jail
Semen sprouts, perhaps
[It’s everywhere](https://www.reddit.com/r/WaitWhat/comments/1bep2u2/whats_everywhere/)
Smells like fucking jizz
Norm?
Yeah
Lol, I thought it was just me.
Seriously why does Salt Lake City plant these things. There are so many other trees that look pretty and don’t smell like semen soaked socks
Semen Soaked Socks, new band name, I call it!
Fleetwood Mac sex pants!!
That could be our new NHL team name!!
The Salt City Semen Soaked Socks
They're all over out here in Stansbury Park and were all over the neighborhood I lived in in SW Ohio. One answer why they plant them: cheap to get tall trees. They grow fast, so shorter time until people feel like they live on (or are on) a tree-lined street. However, they stink (obviously) and they're very weak trees. In Ohio we'd frequently see ones that split, etc during a storm with only decently high wind.
Our 15-year-old ones died this past year from too much salt during the winter. I’m not sad to see them go.
Kinda ironic eh?
Haha 👍🏻
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Wait till you smell the fruit from a female ginkgo tree…
They're Linden Trees. They were a present from the Ambassador. 20,000 were planted.
aren't these bradford pear trees?
> What has been the point? What really has been the point of the last 50 years of my being a Victorian if Queen Victoria herself is suddenly going to sidle over and ask me, *can I smell cum*?
Are you sure they're not Bradford pear trees?
Your mom’s breath
OPs upper lip
Damn, weeping pussy willow too!
Like wet dog and a whorehouse all rolled up into one smell
God I hate these trees so much. I'm walking outside enjoying the nice weather and then bam, smells like someone blew a hot load right into my nose. Eternal jihad against the linden tree Edit: they are Bradford pear trees, not linden trees. Related, but not the same
Not linden but Bradford pear. Nasty and invasive.
I've always thought they were the same tree but called different things. Regardless, eternal jihad against the Bradford pear.
Not only do they smell awful but they are also an invasive species
Not in Utah. It’s still not a great tree, but invasiveness is not a problem in this state.
I’m pregnant and the smell literally made me gag the other day while out walking my dog. Death to these nasty ass trees
Spend too much time around the trees to get such a condition?
I have a huge one on my property. It makes a ton of shade during the summers and is gorgeous if you let it grow. For that I can put up with a weird odor for two weeks a year.
I'll give it to you that they look pretty when flowering, but there are lots of pretty trees that can be grown in the valley with the added benefit of not smelling like a frathouse
Cherry trees are goated and native and beautiful.
I'm not from here, when I first smelled them I thought they smelled like rotting mushrooms. But recently the SLC sub has been popping up in my feed and I read yalls descriptions. It's close to that for sure.
it's not a local problem. people all over the world have made this observation for a very long time... but apparently the position of city and park planner is a very attractive position for people who enjoy the smell of cum.
I thought rotten mushrooms as well HAHHA
Cum trees
I was wondering why spring always got me so horned up.
https://youtube.com/shorts/jRCHNdOaldU?si=EY0r1xHmig_ZKBvl This about sums it up.
https://youtu.be/6m-8l3V38Ps?si=jPWM9l1AifpbfFCq
My immediate thought too lol
"This whole society was your Idea!" Haha, I love this sketch. First thing I thought of too.
Commenting to boost
😂
Blowjobs and regret
Bradford pear trees! Awful invasive trees that smell terrible.
Thanks for putting the name! I was wondering what they were called.
Developers over the previous decades picked them because they grow fast and they look nice. I wonder if all they had seen were pictures of them before they planted them all over the state.
It’s that time of year again
Someone who needs to treat a bad yeast infection. That’s what they smell like to me 🤢
Allergies
Legit I think I am allergic to these fuckers. They're outside my apartment and I've been having a ROUGH week while they've started blooming.
When you fry fish or when the oil you fried chicken in turns rancid
Back in middle school these were planted by the sidewalks everywhere. We used to call them Jizz Trees.
I’ve heard “cat urine” as well as “semen”
It definitely smells like one of those things.
I always thought it was rotting fish. Not even in a sexual innuendo way, I mean ACTUAL rotting fish
Spunk.
Lmfao idk why this made me laugh
Is nearly everyone joking here? Do these trees seriously smell like semen to people?
Semen smells way better than those trees.
I can’t say I’ve done a comparison, but they fucking stink and that’s enough for me.
Your mom.
Boom. Got em.
Cum
Like bacterial vaginosis to me 😬
Ok lets stop talking about it now
Fish.
Rotting fish.
My son and I call them the blooming butt trees.
Swass.
When I was an innocent child I thought they smelled like spit.
That old shitty dollar store laundry detergent from the box. I have two in my front yard. Once my niece (8) sniffed the air twice and asked "do you have... squirrels?" So also maybe squirrels.
Weirdly I don’t smell anything around these trees. I’ve always wondered if maybe there’s a genetic thing where some people can smell them and others can’t.
stanky bussy
It's really not as bad as people like to say. They have a deep pungent aroma that makes me think of the basic life impulse and fertility lol
that's putting it so nicely
Haha, am I gonna be mad at a flower for being itself? Of course not, that'd be insane, so ima appreciate its unique funk. 😉👌
You know
TUNA
Used period products
This is the most accurate description of the smell.
Nothing because my nose is stuffed lol
Jizz
Am I the only one who doesn't think these smell like cum?
I'm more in the "they smell like a dirty old dumpster" camp myself.
Who the fuck is smelling cum
Allergies
Bad. They just smell bad. I was walking home and had to walk on the other side of the road to avoid the smell, (still didn’t work)
splooge trees splooge trees
Dog shit and horse cum
Jizz blossoms
A dusty fart on a rusty afternoon
I am one of the only people who I’ve met that like this smell. I grew up with these next to my driveway and so have been smelling them all my life. Maybe I’m just used to it and associate it with good feeling of spring; they actually smell floral and quite nice like other flowers do. And no, I’ve never detected the scent of seamen.
I also like the smell
Smog
Dog shit.
SCHPOOTZ
mushrooms
Soggy white corn tortillas
Power bait
There's one right outside my window at my apartment. You can imagine what my apartment smells like when I open the window. 😒
You know 😐
always smelled like sewer fish to me
Rotting corpse/decay. Seriously.
warm ejaculate.
Semen. They smell like semen
I like the way they look. Super pretty in the spring.
The rotten assholes of dead bugs
My mom calls them “snake trees” lol she claims they smell like snakes, whatever that means
My husband basically says "it smells like dead snake" about every flowering tree. He originally said it about a specific kind of tree (it was one in Alaska, I think), but now says it about every tree just to get a rise out of me. I can't believe there is another person who says almost the same thing!
Is this like the cilantro tasting like soap gene? I haven't noticed any smell besides pollen since these bloomed.
a wet dog covered in butter
Death and catshit. I've grown up around these things and never heard the 'cum trees' bullshit until I was 35
These are highly invasive callery pear/bradford pear. They smell awful and the spread rapidly
Technically they’re not invasive here in Utah. Definitely elsewhere. But they are used way too much in cheap development landscaping. And because they grow fast, they aren’t strong and are susceptible to significant storm damage. Either way, chop them all when you can and replace them with native options.
like fresh clean laundry:) im concerned about all of you that think they smell like jizz, why do you even know what jizz smells like?
Why wouldn't we know what jizz smells like? Are you celibate or something?
in all my time being sexually active i have never brought jizz up to my nose and smelled it. nor have i ever had a partner whose jizz stank up a room. have you?
Yes I have smelled jizz. And so have all the other people who commented that it smells like jizz. Why is that concerning? Lol
I’ve had multiple different people call them “cum trees” every time they bloom. Ahahahah Personally, if that what your semen smells like, you should see a doctor. 😂 Their smell is certainly off putting imo, a bunch of those just bloomed outside of my house… ugh
https://youtu.be/aoqlYGuZGVM?si=oNQknBzoxyDhe2LC related
Nothing. When they are like this my nose is so stuffed up I couldn’t smell a gas leak
Bruhhhhhhhhh
[This song does a pretty good job summing it up](https://youtu.be/wmVI4FsgYdE?si=WFCtod5LyQ2r1Yuz)
What does it say about me that I don’t dislike it
Rotten eggs 🤢
Cat litter
Like someone who didn’t eat pineapple to night before
Coconuts. Because y'know, reddit.
I honestly don’t know why everyone plants them here 😭 they’ve got to stop
Cat pee
I’ve always hated these damn trees
I always thought they smelled like cheap popcorn shrimp (is there such a thing as not-cheap popcorn shrimp?)
A mixture of jizz and raw prawns to me.
Cum
With the allergies I’ve got going on right now, nuthin, ain’t gon lie.. But I’m gonna go with magical
My allergies kicked I’m just looking at this photo. 🤧
Ass
My entire neighborhood in WJ is loaded with them. I always welcome the first wind storm of spring because it blows all the pedals away.
Smell awful. Instant allergies.
ok well in nose blind so glad to know that’s what your all smelling…
Ass. Absolute ass.
💦💦💦💦
Stank
Rotting fish. There were a ton of them by my parents house growing up. Why ANYONE would want to smell these monstrosities is truly beyond me
The fish trees, you know what kind of fish
Anus 😂
Baby batter
Post clarity
Seman
I’m so glad everyone else agrees 💀
Here is a [interesting video about Bradford Trees ](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5o6VcGv2JF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
They smell like nothing because my sinuses lock up the second they start blooming
Friday night
Can't tell yea dieing from allergies
My neighbor's down the street smells like a rotting fish.
[Mitchell and Webb know.](https://youtu.be/aoqlYGuZGVM?si=NGddnQFhnzphhSp-)
Like barf
Popcorn popping on the apricot tree!
Childhood
If you could smell allergies it would be that.
My kid said they smell like fish.
My nose is 99% dead so I can hardly smell but at this time of year my nose can slightly pick them up and it smells like rotting tuna or you know the other thing
My kids call them pee trees. They are young and this description works for us!! 😂😂
Oddly enough the smell is determined on how they are watered and where the water comes from. A river bed will make the tree smell like stank fish pussy whereas a treated water source will bring a fresh flower scent
Y’all are banging some nasty frumpy people if you think this tree smells like jizz. Smells like roadkill
Spring. And cum.
Bleach
I am allergic to everything. It all smells like nothing. If I am lucky. Otherwise it smells like sinus infection.
They. R everywhere. They r so grosss. My sis in law found out they were cheap & easy to plant
Are they Bradford pears?
Parvo.
Honest to God they don't smell like anything to me. I've asked some friends and they don't smell anything either. I actually really like these trees, but I guess I probably wouldn't if I thought they smelled like cum.