vrmn1 Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 (edited) They smell like,,,,,,,well this is a family show so I won't say what I think they smell like other than they stink. AND my wife, son, and I have not been able to breathe for a week. Edited March 16, 2008 by vrmn1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxd9 Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 They smell like,,,,,,,well this is a family show so I won't say what I think they smell like other than they stink.AND my wife, son, and I have not been able to breathe for a week. +100 I hate this time of year too. We've got them all over the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 A quick google brought up some interesting names for this particular flora. Doesn't sound like a very pleasant bloom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ima45dv8 Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 By some strange development, they deliberately smell like rotted meat. They're fertilized by flies, not bees, and the aroma of putrid meat draws 'em like, well. . . . . . .flies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Reminds me of a plant in the Amazon that I recall reading about. The funk of rotting flesh keeps most animals away, but attracts the carrion fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neomet Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 My parents had one of these and I hated the freakin thing. Stunk like a corpse, and produced more fruit than the limbs could support so I would have to go over and climb up into the tree to prune it and take down extra fruit. Plus the extra joy of twisting my ankle a couple times a year on dropped, rotten fruit. My mom just loved that tree for some damn reason. I think the new owners cut it down a month after my folks moved out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvb Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 our house had a couple of these when I bought it. First one came down during a tropical storm a few months after I bought the house. Just missed doing damage to the neighbors house. Second came down last summer in a thunderstorm a couple weeks after we got the wife's new xterra.... and it JUST missed it. They are fragile when the get full grown, so don't park under them or have them near the house. -rvb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 I'm going to have to check... I though my old house had a nice bradford pear tree in the front yard. But, I don't recall it ever smelling, and it wasn't a fruit producer. Maybe it was't a bradford pear (I don't know trees well). I really liked that tree...it grew fast and had a nice fill-out. But, it had a 3-way fork toward the bottom and a storm took out 1/3 of it...just missing house. Pretty soft wood, it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boz1911 Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 No fruit, just smells like dirty socks!! My wife loves to look at them, but I keep telling her there is no way I am ever planting one in our yard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vrmn1 Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 Yep no fruit, just smell. I suppose they smell a bit like rotting meat, I think they smell like rotting male produce bodily fluid. The person that owned my house before me planted 2 of the damn things. Even if they were not in my yard the house right across the street has a line of the things so I would still be in trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 By some strange development, they deliberately smell like rotted meat. They're fertilized by flies, not bees, and the aroma of putrid meat draws 'em like, well. . . . . . .flies. Maybe this thing should be renamed Lucifer's Lilac or the Devils Daffodil. Sounds like a plant from hell to me. Flies?!...Dead Meat??!! Holy Smokes! Jim M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdstihl Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Bradford pears are liked because they grow fast and bloom early, plus have that nice neat round shape. The really really good thing about 'em is, they only last about 20 years before they fall apart. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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