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 ...

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 ...