Stinking Ginkgo Fruit

It is the time of year [October] that female ginkgo trees drop their fleshy fruit, which when crushed by passing cars or pedestrians release a stench that has been likened to rotten butter, vomit, or dog excrement. It is what gives the ginkgo tree a bad name.

- Karen Daubmann, New York Botanical Garden (link here)

If I had planted one when we first moved to Hales Corners, the entire neighborhood would reek every fall.