My wife is one of the people who picks up around your tree, right across from the school. We live in one of the apartment houses just down the hill from you. I tell her I know you have no objection but still she does this only late at night, using a flashlight.

She keeps her stash in double zip-locked plastic bags out on the hallway fire escape. I tell her that if we ever have a fire, the firemen are going to refuse to use that doorway.

She cooks the fruit (when I am not around) and the result is odorless. She gave up trying to convince me to drink the tea she makes or those nuts. I say it still takes like dog-poo (not that I have any basis for the comparison).

When not dropping fruit it is a beautiful tree and your handsome old house would be naked without it.

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Quote:ew god why would anyone ever try to eat them raw. They can make tasty cooked treats but ew raw ginko fruit yuck

There is a skinky Ginko tree outside my place on Mongomery too. There is another one on York st. I know that becasue i parked under the tree. It was a stinky mistake.

What I believe is the largest female ginkgo tree in JC (perhaps the biggest, male or female) is in front of my house. Yes, it stinks and is a total pain to clean up after during Oct and Nov, but it's a beautiful tree and I refuse to cut it down. We get a lot of asian neighbors coming around to collect the nuts. Unfortunately many of them pick out the seeds and leave the fruit behind instead of cleaning up after themselves.

No one plants females as street trees anymore -- they make cuttings from male trees to plan instead. Any females you see on JC streets were planted a while ago from seeds and it takes a good 10+ years before the sex can even be figured out. The other female trees in JC I know of are on Montgomery and one in Lincoln Park. There are some really big ones in Lincoln Park, in the corner near the playground, but most all of them are male.

Poor female ginkgo tree.

http://www.nybg.org/plant-talk/2008/1 ... 99s-stinking-ginkgo-time/

"Though they smell terrible, the female cones, once harvested and processed, reveal seeds known as ?white nuts? or ?ginkgo nuts.? These seeds are a delicacy in Chinese and Japanese cooking, used in stuffing, soups, and even desserts. This treat is also nutritious, containing 13% protein and 3% fats. That is why female ginkgo trees are sought out at this time of year by those who envision making Bird?s Nest Soup and other traditional Asian dishes. Ginkgo seed hunters carry gloves and Ziploc bags while wearing shoes with soles that can be easily washed."

I take back what I said, it appears it is not healthy to eat the berries raw?? Never knew that.

Where's the tree?

Ima gonna makea ginko pie!

There are fellow sufferers in Queens
See this link
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/11/1 ... ant-smelly-trees-removed/

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?The stench is horrible ? it?s like a combination of dog excrement and vomit,? Foertsch said. ?It?s a nauseating smell.?

Years ago, the city planted six female ginkgo biloba trees along Langdale Street. The trees drop a bumper crop of fruit each fall.

?The fruit is pretty repulsive,? said Fred Gerber, an expert at Queens Botanical Garden.

Gerber said that?s why the females shouldn?t be planted in residential areas.

?Usually they?re planted by mistake, and of course the males don?t have any fruit, so those are the ones you usually see on the street,? Gerber said

We should gather all the stinky fruit and bring it to the park on Wayne Street.

Might accomplish what the cops can't...

Use it to your benefit, pick them and eat them. It improves circulation and memory, you'll feel good.

Tell me where you live and I'll have my dad go over and pick all of the nuts off of that tree. He's actually done this, much to my mortification when I was in high school.

well.. you can blame the Chinese. Their Monks kept this dinosaur era tree from finally becoming extinct. Ginkos grow well in urban areas, which is why they are so popular.


The fruit is edible by the way.

Does anybody live near a Gingko tree? I have one on the corner of my block and it's disgusting.When the fruit falls it smells like vomit. I don't care what benefits it has because the smell is nauseating. While walking down the block once I accidentally stepped on a tiny speck and I had to clean the bottom of my sneaker with bleach because of the stink.I heard that in Queens the powers that be said they would not cut the trees down because the benefits outweigh the liabilities. I'll bet if you plant one of those trees in front of their house they'll change their tune. When the wind blows it's even worse. Anybody else bothered by this?