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1+ week, 5+ day ago  (523+ words) Have you gone on a walk around your neighborhood recently? If so, you may have stumbled across a big, beautiful, white-flowered tree. Then, when you got a little closer, you may have thought, "why does that tree smell so bad?...

1+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (941+ words) Drive into pretty much any neighborhood in the Wilmington area in late winter or early spring and you're likely to see ornamental trees in yards and along streets covered with blooming white flowers. The Bradford pear " and other varieties of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (755+ words) It seemed like a good idea at the time. A tree resistant to disease and drought, able to thrive in different environments, and whose puffy white leaves looked great in backyards and city streets across America. What's not to like…...

19+ hour, 43+ min ago  (454+ words) Bradford pear trees are the real Jersey devil. Spring has sprung and the Garden State's very pretty, but oh-so-stinky, Bradford pears are blossoming " and perfuming neighborhoods with their noxious fishy odor. But not for long. Under a new law, the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (638+ words) New Jersey's beautiful but infamously smelly Bradford pear trees are one of several plant species that have officially been designated as prohibited invasive species in the Garden State, banning their propagation, sale and distribution. If you've taken a stroll around…...

21+ hour ago  (282+ words) Updated on: April 18, 2026 / 2: 56 PM EDT / CBS New York New Jersey is banning more than two dozen invasive trees and plants, including the Bradford pear, which residents say emits a strange odor when it blooms every spring." The Invasive Species Management…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (457+ words) Spring is'when nature tells'everyone that while winter was a good rest, it's time to get back to'blooming flowers, bees buzzing, and lawn mowers running.' Over the past 10 years, spring'in the woods has been signaled by a ubiquitous white flowing tree…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (396+ words) At first glance, you might just think those trees covered in little white blossoms are a welcome sign of spring. Then you catch a whiff of that fishy odor and quickly change your mind when you realize; those are the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (92+ words) NCAA women's basketball tournament breakdown of which top teams and surprise upsets will happen before the Final Four in Phoenix on April 3 and 5. Road to Women's Final Four in Phoenix. Favorites, upset predictions The road to the Women's Final Four…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (375+ words) The tree that has invaded the South and brings comments of, "What's that smell?" is about to start blooming once again as we inch ever closer to warmer weather and the first day of spring. Bradford pear trees, once an…...