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[-] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 90 points 3 months ago

On the bright side, you can masturbate around them and no one will know! By smell at least.

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 45 points 3 months ago

Unless the tree narcs on you.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 months ago

God damn talking trees, snitching bastards all of em

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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Damn, I wish I'd read your second sentence.

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 66 points 3 months ago

Yeah my college campus had an area with Bradford pear trees and that definitely created more than one awkward conversation.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 3 months ago
[-] snooggums@piefed.world 62 points 3 months ago

An awkward conversation is a conversation that feels awkward, often due to the subject being socially taboo.

[-] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 20 points 3 months ago

But that’s not important right now. Don’t call me Shirley.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 8 points 3 months ago

Do you like movies about gladiators?

[-] jim_v@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Gladiator? I hardly know her!

[-] M137@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No, they surely referred to "college campus" with their comment!
A college campus traditionally refers to the land and buildings of a college or university. This will often include libraries, lecture halls, student centers and, for residential universities, residence halls and dining halls.

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago

Like a conversation about why everything smells like cum amongst a bunch of 18 to 23 year olds.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago

Since no one has given you a serious answer yet, Bradford Pears are the type of tree that smells like male ejaculate.

They even make these long strands that are covered in their tree jizz (pollen)

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 7 points 3 months ago

The people I know who say Bradford pears smell awful say they smell like piss, not cum.

All of the people I know who say Bradford smell like piss also have the cilantro tastes like soap gene so I always wonder if the two are related or just a coincidence in the small sample size.

I like cilantro and think Bradford pears have a strong smell like many plants do, but it doesn't remind me of anything in particular.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

They must consider you "polite society" so they say piss instead of jizz.

I love cilantro, it tastes like heaven not soap. But bradford pears smell like jizz.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 3 months ago

Nope, one is my wife who laughed the first time she saw a meme about it smelling like cum and speculated they mixed up their trees.

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[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ginkgo trees don't have flowers. They are gymnosperms like pines, firs, spruces, cedars etc. They produce cones.

Their "fruit" smell like ass though. Not even fruit, just a fleshy pine cone of sorts.

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 15 points 3 months ago

They smell like vomit.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

Not even fruit, just a fleshy pine cone of sorts.

Some places they eat the fruit, like Japan and China

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[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the meme is fine but OP got the wrong tree in the title. Should be the callery pear.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

Isn't all pollen basically tree cum?

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 21 points 3 months ago

No, it's genetically the offspring of the plant, and contains at least one non-reproductive cell. Pollen produces the male gametes, so the seeds created from it produce the 3rd generation of plant, genetically speaking. (1st gen is pollen producer, 2nd gen is pollen, 3rd gen is seed.) It's basically an ultra-minimal gametophyte stage.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

So it's tree...pre...cum? Wait, no, the tree is throwing his balls into the air, but he also grows more balls..?

Why did I even start typing today?

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 6 points 3 months ago

Well, the pollen does grow an enormous (relatively) schlong to deliver its sperm into the stamen...

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[-] snooggums@piefed.world 20 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but why does it sometimes smell like mammal cum?

[-] 7eter@feddit.org 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't know WHY. But the relevant tree is called (Götterbaum in German) or Tree of Heaven - beautiful

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Fucking hate trees of heaven, they should be called Trees from Hell. Invasive little shits grow everywhere

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[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago

Some trees are pollinated by beetles, flies, or other insects that might normally be attracted to rotting flesh. As a result, they often emit a more meaty odor. Why cum specifically I can't say but I think cum has certain organic molecules in common with dead things.

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[-] ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

I thought this for the longest time until I fell down a rabbit hole a while back. Pollen is literally the tree's offspring in the form of microscopic plants. When the flowers of a tree are fertilized, the pollen literally grow into the actual reproductive parts of the plant to begin the fertilization process.

[-] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reproductive organs smelling like reproductive organs isn't that weird, now that I think about it, reproductive organs smelling like flowers are weird...

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 26 points 3 months ago
[-] muhyb@programming.dev 19 points 3 months ago
[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

You're a wizard, Harry

[-] Zomg@piefed.world 13 points 3 months ago

Bradford Pear tree next

[-] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

I absolutely hate Bradford pears but people in the south LOVE planting them. Damn fools, I say!

I have friends that apparently can't even smell them 🫩

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Smh outed themselves as gooners who can't even tell anymore

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[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 13 points 3 months ago

Cumtrees also have a right to exist

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

figs have entered the chat

[-] marretics@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago

Please don't tell me figs smell like cum as well! My wife just got a fig tree for our patio

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

You might be fine with a small potted plant, but yeah they stink.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hm? Can't confirm. My parents have a huge one, doesn't smell.

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[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago

Fig didn't smell like cum, not that I can tell what cum smells like, given that I have been covered in it so much, I can't smell it at all.

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[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago

Pretty flowers they remind me of my dearly departed Harold.

[-] dkppunk@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

We have this other tree that’s grown around here a lot. It has the most beautiful explosion of purple flowers every spring. Then it just smells like cum all day lol

[-] Bonus@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

Jacarandandfindout!

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