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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ginkgos are dioecious, so there are boy trees and girl trees. The girls produce the fruit, so they are rarely planted.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

My local park has nothing but the female trees, and that fruit is stanky but still not as bad as a Bradford pear tree, which smells like a dead asshole.