Ginkgo trees are known to give off an unpleasant odor that smells like 'rancid butter and vomit' every October and November.

Some people still are willing to brave the stench of the fruit to forage the seeds inside — they can be used for cooking or ...

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," ...

The state cordoned off the Sacramento tree this month because visitors might slip on the berries, which happen to smell like ...

Sacramento’s State Capitol Park has been ringed off after visitors and staff complained about a sour, vomit‑like smell coming ...

Few smells signal the arrival of fall in the city like the pukey odor of the ginkgo biloba tree. Each year, ginkgos shower the sidewalks with their pungent seed pods, creating an obstacle course for ...

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 like rancid butter and vomit. Looking around you don't see anything ...

Two 75-year-old ginkgo trees at California State Capitol Park in Sacramento are producing a foul odor and safety risks during their fall fruiting season. The female trees release berries containing ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — 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," ...

"It's pretty disgusting," said Jan Schneider, an office manager in downtown Iowa City whose business has a ginkgo out front. Iowa City was one of many communities that planted ginkgoes in the 1970s ...