cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/395101
A few hundred people have turned out to protect historic century-old ginkgo trees that are likely to be chopped down under a controversial redevelopment for a beloved Tokyo park district.
They had some of these near my school. They screwed up and planted female ones (I think) and they were supposed to be male (again, I think). The ones they planted flowered, and the ones they were supposed to plant did not. These things dropped the most absolutely foul smelling fruit, or.maybe it was flower. Not sure. There would be little Asian ladies collecting them to sell as supplements. My God, it was such a nasty odor. It smelled like a gas leak mixed with putrid farts. If these are those kind of gingko trees, good riddance.
Yes it is the females that produce those fruits. The article does not mention the sex of these trees. The males are quite nice. But I think the larger issue in this case is the privatization of public space, of which there is often very little left in Tokyo and other large cities.