IOWA CITY, Iowa -- 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. "It's pretty disgusting," ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hand plucking an apple from a tree - Tom Merton/Getty Images You walk outside and get a whiff of a very pungent odor that smells ...

A pair of 75-year-old trees has been emitting a vomit-like smell at the California State Capitol Park in Sacramento The ginkgo trees give off the foul smell due to the butyric acid in their fruit’s ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The ginkgo tree is renowned for its hardiness - a few even survived an atomic bomb - but it may be undone by another trait - its smell.

A ginkgo tree at the California state Capitol was fenced off this month because its putrid fruit was both a slip and a sniff hazard. Incidentally, the berries — technically seeds with a casing — do ...