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Botanical Sexism
- amluto 3y agoHuh, the article is missing ginkgo as an example. Mulberries are merely messy in the ground. Ginkgo nuts smell terrible.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoDid you see the photo on the right hand side?
- dsukhin 3y agoThis causes some interesting knock on effects on society: 1. more pollen (as mentioned in the article), leading to more more allergies, leading to more allergy med sales 2. no free fruit growing in the streets for kids/others to eat healthy snacks (visitors to some “old world” towns admire this about them). The fruit “littering the landscape” being the stated reason for not planting female trees, means non biodegradable trash from chip bags and other disposable wrappers litter our cities instead
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoSome fruit trees are indeed planted in urban areas, and the city planners are always very careful to plant varieties that have been bred for tough, bitter, inedible fruits. There's a two-block underpass near me with rows of citrus; imagine if they were sweet oranges.
- 8note 3y agoI bet the city would get sued if somebody ate a sweet orange and got sick
- alephaleph 3y agoSaw a thorough debunking of this on twitter by a crop scientist: https://twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/1423016010131648513 https://twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/142301601013164851...