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Common Name: Ginkgo or Maidenhair
Scientific Name: Ginkgo biloba
Location: Williamsburg Park near the picnic shelter
Size:
Native to: China. It is known to grow in only one forest in China in the wild, but is cultivated widely.
This tree typically grows to: 50-80 feet tall and 30-40 feet wide
This tree prefers these conditions: Medium to wet soil; full sun.
Special about this tree:
- The Ginkgo is a prehistoric tree; fossils show it was growing 170 million years ago, and it is unlike any other tree alive today.
- This tree’s leaves are a crisp green in summer, turning brilliant yellow in fall.
- The fruit of this tree has a putrid odor, so most people take care to purchase a sterile male cultivar to plant in parks or residential properties.
- This is one tough tree, and can tolerate pollution, heat and drought. It even survived the nuclear blast at Hiroshima.
- Resistant to deer.
