Species Ginkgo biloba

Species biloba

Species biloba (ginkgo)

Large Ginkgo Tree
University Chico State
2007.12.05
Planted by Bidwell about 1870

Ginkgo Tree
University Chico State
2007.11.27

Inception: Permian, 270 million years. Very old "LIVING FOSSIL".

Native: only Tian Mu Shan Reserve in China.

150 ft deciduous tree
Dioecious, (separate sexes)
3,000 years
Resistant to disease, urban pollution, and atomic radiation.

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Leaves:
Fan-shaped with veins radiating out into the leaf blade
Leaves have more than four veins per segment
Extracts improves blood flow in small capillaries

Ginkgo leaf from male (no difference) Tree
University Chico State
2007.11.27

Female Ginkgo Tree
University Chico State
2007.11.27

Seeds:
Fruit contains butanoic acid
Smells malodorous
Cycad like sperm from males (Very ancient)

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MaidenHair

Kula Botanical Gardens, Maui

Maui
2009.DEC.16
Species: Ginkgo. Biloba

Kula Botanical Gardens, Maui

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2011.10.18
Fruit
Female tree in the SaveMart parking lot Chico, Ca
Fruit tasted like sour milk,
and smells like puke.
The way the fruit "groups" reminds me of date Palms.
The taste is like no other fruit that I have eaten, but is quite edible.
I could still smell the sour milk aroma from the juicy fruit two hours later from the residual on my fingers. I went into Subways and felt that people could smell it on my breath. But if they did, they didnt say much. My wife wishes that I would stop doing embarrassing things. But my first wife, being more direct, would often come right out with it and call me an "old goat".