WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Officials said the District Department of Transportation's Urban Forestry Administration (UFA) will start spraying the female ginkgo fruits from Wednesday, May 7 to Friday, May 9 ...

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 ...

Ginkgo-perfuming season has begun. As it does annually, the District Department of Transportation is spraying female ginkgo biloba trees this week in all eight wards—with a chemical known as ...

Q: Do ginkgo trees stink? Does it depend on whether it is a male or female tree? If so, how do you know which you are getting? Tamara Josey, Sandersville A: The tree itself does not stink but the ...

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," said ...

This undated photo shows a ginkgo leaf in New Paltz, NY. In addition to their fan shape, leaves of ginkgo trees have a unique venation pattern indicating its origin of this genus millions of years ago ...

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 ...

It must be autumn leaf season. The leaves of the ginkgo tree—the nation's signature street tree—are starting to turn yellow. Soon, we'll be seeing leaves in all sorts of colors: red, brown, and more.

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 ...

This undated photo shows a ginkgo leaf in New Paltz, NY. In addition to their fan shape, leaves of ginkgo trees have a unique venation pattern indicating its origin of this genus millions of years ago ...