Today we will be discussing the oldest extant tree from prehistoric times – the beautiful and stately ginkgo. And, we are talking really prehistoric here. Ginkgo trees are found in the fossil record ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Our present-day "living fossil tree" is nearly identical to leaves found in ...

"The tree that survived Hiroshima," "prehistoric tree," "living fossil"... Ginkgo biloba has been given many labels, not always accurate, which overshadow one of its greatest peculiarities: its ...

These ancient trees persisted for nearly 200 million years until they all but vanished. Now they line city streets. Tourists visit a 1000-year-old ginkgo tree in China's Sichuan province. During the ...

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