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in reply to @bazelgeuse-apologist's post:
Cursed knowledge about the United States' allergen landscape moves me to point out that quite a number of trees are extremely gendered. I swear some of them have more gender going on than humans do.
I would like to be subjected to this curséd knowledge
The short version is that some trees that are extremely popular for landscaping, especially urban landscaping, are sexually dimorphic such that female trees drop stabby seed pods, fruits that rot, etc. A lot of urban planning in the 20th century looked at this fact and went "well, the female trees require a whole extra level of cleaning up after, so we'll just plant nothing but male trees. Problem solved!" But those male trees produce pollen. And in at least some tested species, female trees would normally pull a lot of that pollen out of the air (on account of, you know, being evolved to want it).
So the end result is a lot of USAmerican cities are allergen bombs because they combine no female trees to reduce pollen with only male trees to produce even more pollen. This problem is hardly unique to specific cities; all you need is someone in charge of the trees who doesn't want to pick up fruits/seeds/etc and doesn't think through what that will do to the local pollen counts.