Smell has some cities ripping out ginkgo trees

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The ginkgo tree is renowned for its hardiness, surviving everything from road salt to an atomic bomb, but it may be undone by another trait -- it reeks.

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