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Tree Smells Like Come
"When it comes to the tree of heaven, Lorraine Johnson doesn't beat around the bush. 'There's no doubt,' says the author and native plant expert. 'It smells like semen.'"
-This article discusses Ailanthus altissima, also known as "sperm tree, semen tree, ghetto palm, stink tree," jizz timber, spunk sapling, splooge blossom and ejaculate conifer. (I may have made a couple of those up, see if you can guess which.) Anyway, now you know.
Or, in Florida, dogwood.
IT'S THOSE *#$#$# THINGS THAT DO IT. All this time I thought it was Bradford Pears, or some sort of Flowering Cherry.
I live about 5 blocks from the wad willow. Not sure if I'm inspired to visit it or not.
My money's on "splooge blossom."
Otherwise known as Bedford Ave. in the springtime.
Rosey Palm tree.
You missed a few nicknames. Baby batter bloom, Treekakke, Fuckflower.
Treekakke FTFW.
Only tangentially related, but "baby batter" always makes me hungry for pancakes.
I thought that was the Linden or Lime tre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHze0SqB5Zg
Dammit, that's exactly where my mind went, too.
Come On, Lorraine
better that than a piss fir. those fuckers stink.
Just make sure you don't get it all over your Palm.
This is making me reconsider my answer to an 8th grade essay question on A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. "How is Francie like the Tree of Heaven?"
Someone! dispatch a synesthete on this beat.
They always smell a little wriggly to me.
I went to college in VA and during the early spring we used to always say the female gingko trees there smelled like unwashed lady bits.
You can take the boy out of the cuntree…
'The Give It To Me Tree.'
This has been a haunting subject of debate amongst Cecil Adam's readers since 1985:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/569/i-want-to-get-my-nipples-pierced-are-there-health-risks
One of my favorite internet people has taken the scientific name of this tree as her nickname on the internet. I never knew it was vaguely naughty!
"Now considered an invasive species", *badump-tsh*!
it's not spelled c-u-m? did porn lie to me?
Yes! Thanks be to Balk for using the correct, non internet-ized spelling, which bugs me just as much as the incorrect use of "phase" instead of "faze" grrr…
I thought that spelling came from wimmin's health books from the 70s, and that it pre-dated the internet.
Yeah, I learned that from analogue porn (although I suppose in a sense all good porn is digital porn) long before skynet.