Smell has some cities ripping out ginkgo trees

Full story: Santa Cruz Sentinel

The ginkgo tree is renowned for its hardiness, surviving everything from road salt to an atomic bomb, but it may be undone by another trait - it reeks.

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etherialgirl

San Francisco, CA

The city buying the trees needs to purchase male trees from a reputable supplier.It is the female trees which are not suitable for public spaces because of the fuit.This was one of the major points made in my plant identification class in Santa Rosa.

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