A Sacramento resident describes the stinky smell emanating from the fruit of a ginkgo tree at the California Capitol on Oct. 27, 2025. After 46 years, a family thought they had closure in the ...

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 ...

The smell wafted through the air in the October sunshine. At least one Harvard scientist has likened it to "rancid butter and vomit," while Jennifer Iida, a spokesperson for Sacramento's Department of ...

For 40 years, staff at Nova Scotia's Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens thought their ginkgo tree was male. Then they got a very smelly surprise earlier this year. Male ginkgos are typically the only ...

Q. I have read that ginkgo trees can live for hundreds of years. Is this true, and what makes them so unusual? Why are they called “living fossils”? A. Modern ginkgoes belong to a single species of ...

Q. I have read that ginkgo trees can live for hundreds of years. Is this true, and what makes them so unusual? Why are they called “living fossils?” A. Modern ginkgoes belong to a single species of ...

Ginkgo biloba trees shine this time of the year, with their golden fan-shaped foliage. These trees are a popular landscape choice in cities where they resist pollution and environmental stress. They ...