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The native chestnut (Castanea dentata) on Eastern USA has flowers that smell
like that - a very heavy and moist smell.  They flower in early summer and
have dense hanging clusters of small ivory colored flowers.

I'm not sure if other chestnuts smell like that also.

It is the same species that used to be very common in the East until the
"chestnut blight" destroyed nearly all of the mature trees.  Often the roots
still survive and send up sprouts.  But as soon as the bark develops furrows
a beetle comes in and brings the disease with it.  In oak woodlands in the
East these sprouts are not uncommon and many larger trees do survive -
especially at the edge of it's range.

Steve


Wandering Jew <devchonka33@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:37C03879.6BF6@hotmail.com...
> Hey, dudes, this might strike you as a silly question
> but I hope I can get an answer! There's this tree that
> sort of smells like human sperm in summer (I think when
> it flowers). A pretty strong distinct smell. What's it
> called? And is it the flowers that smell?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kalb