Isn't all pollen basically tree cum?
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Yeah, but why does it sometimes smell like mammal cum?
I don't know why - but the relevant tree is called (Götterbaum in German) or Tree of Heaven - beautiful
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.
They smell like vomit.
Reproductive organs smelling like reproductive organs isn't that weird, now that I think about it, reproductive organs smelling like flowers are weird...
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
Oh?
On the bright side, you can masturbate around them and no one will know! By smell at least.
Unless the tree narcs on you.
God damn talking trees, snitching bastards all of em
Yeah my college campus had an area with Bradford pear trees and that definitely created more than one awkward conversation.
Wait, a what?
An awkward conversation is a conversation that feels awkward, often due to the subject being socially taboo.
But that’s not important right now. Don’t call me Shirley.
Cumtrees also have a right to exist
Bradford Pear tree next
figs have entered the chat
Please don't tell me figs smell like cum as well! My wife just got a fig tree for our patio
You might be fine with a small potted plant, but yeah they stink.
Hm? Can't confirm. My parents have a huge one, doesn't smell.
Gross