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Ginkgo biloba (prehistoric tree) 2020 photo

Ginkgo biloba (prehistoric tree) 2020 photo - Common Name: Maidenhair tree, Size at 10 years: 60x50ft., Green Foliage, Insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, In Garden Bed L1 for 8.0 YEARS (MSU). Planted in 2012.

 

North Carolina State University: Large deciduous tree 50' to 80' in height and 30' to 40' in width; leaves alternate, simple, fan-shaped; seeds (only on female trees) plum-like, yellow-orange, the outer, fleshy pulp foul-smelling when ripe, the inner wall hard, smooth, and cream colored. Grey-brown bark in ridges.

 

Messy fruit; plant male trees, yellow leaves fall rapidly in fall; drought, heat, air pollution, and moderately salt tolerant; easy to transplant; long-lived. Resistant to damage by deer. Excellent city tree. Popular for bonsai.

 

Site: Sun; range of soil types except wet soil

 

Excellent urban tolerant tree for its sculptural shape the quality of light it creates on the street. The streets of New York exemplify the use of the GinkGo as a street tree. Zone 8 and 9 in the Southeast.

 

Ginkgo biloba is a prehistoric tree, it disappeared from the North American fossil record about 7 million years ago and has since been introduced from a country or countries.

 

###Graft stock from MSU class on Jan 28, 2012. Graft failed. Tolerates Deer, Clay Soil, Air Pollution. Does not seem Black Walnut sensitive. It is planted next to a mature Blacl Walnut. Biloba derived from the Latin meaning two lobed.

 

pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuh n: GINK-oh by-LOE-buh

 

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Uploaded on February 22, 2020
Taken on February 22, 2020