What could this tree in my front yard be? About 25 ft tall and STINKY white flowers just bloomed.?

I live in SC, so it is fairly warm out already. I bought my house last June and at that time the tree just had big leaves on it. Since it is getting warm here already, the tree has these teeny white flowers that bloomed all over it (no leaves yet like I remember it last summer). These flowers smell awful!! I have never smelled a flower that actually stunk. It's not that I simply don't prefer the smell of them, they flat out stink. Kinda smells like rotten fish to me. It is a beautiful tree, just smells horrible this time of the year. What kind of tree is it?

What could this tree in my front yard be? About 25 ft tall and STINKY white flowers just bloomed.?
It's a Bradford Pear Tree, we used to have one in front of our house. Every year when it starts to get warm, it will smell like something died, it smells even worse after a rain.. and those stinky little flowers will fall off and get all over the grass and driveway..
Reply:maybe your tree has a fungus cause i have lived in the south for years and have been surrounded by bradford pear trees and never had one stink like that. call your local tree nursery maybe they can tell you why.
Reply:Pear trees are known to stink - and it can last a while. I don't know why, but they do.





The worst of the smell will go away after the blossoms drop and the leaves come in.
Reply:I did some research aswell..and you are right it is a bradford pear tree..it states oon this link it STIIINKS..
Reply:yes it is a bradford pear. they are notorious for their fish smell!
Reply:eeewww it sounds like a stinky mcstinkinheimer tree to me!! dig it up and go plant it with its own kind!!
Reply:Take a picture of it and post it on line so we can see it.