Bradford pear trees may be visually appealing, but their drawbacks far outweigh their brief beauty. While their white blooms ...

It is weak-wooded, poorly branched and its flowers smell like a high school locker room laundry pile. Bradford pear trees: Stop planting the invasive trees and take down every one you see If the ...

When the Bradford pear trees are in bloom in early spring, you pretty much can't miss them; you see the lovely white blossoms on trees everywhere - and you smell that not-nearly-so-lovely fishy odor ...

The Bradford pear (Pyrus callerana "Bradford") was originally developed as a way to help control fire blight in pear trees. Fire blight can be a devastating bacterial disease in fruit trees. In the ...

In this episode of Growing the Ozarks, host Kelly McGowan of the University of Missouri Extension talks with Springfield ...

Most commonly, people complain that it reeks of rotting fish or spoiled milk, and the foul smell lingers as long as the flowers do. Bradford pear trees, whose white blooms signal the arrival of ...

Woe to the Callery pear, possibly the most unloved fruit-bearing tree this side of the Garden of Eden. Sales of this Asian native and its best-known cultivar, the Bradford pear, have been banned in ...

The smell has driven Bay Area locals to bestow wonderful nicknames for the Bradford pear such as “jizz trees” and “cum trees.” Besides the terrible smell, the invasive species has other ...

The smell is because of Bradford Pear Trees, the white trees that some people say smell like fish. They’re an invasive species and experts say they’re bad for the environment. “They multiply ...

Also known as Bradford pear trees, Conservation officials noted that ... The flowers may be appealing, however, they have a foul smell and many varieties have thorns. Their aggressive growth ...