One, the ginkgo tree Introduction:

Ginkgo tree is also known as the white fruit tree, also known as the ancient duck's foot tree or Gongsun tree. It is one of the world's most valuable tree species, is the only species of ancient ginkgo plants surviving on earth, so botanists regard it as the plant world's "living fossil", and with the cedar, cedar, money pine, known as the world's four major garden trees. China's horticulturists often ginkgo and peony, orchids and comparisons, known as the "garden three treasures", and it is respected as the national tree.

Two, ginkgo tree ornamental value:

Ginkgo tree is a tall deciduous tree, trunk upright, beautiful tree, strong resistance to disease, pollution resistance, life long, up to thousands of years. It is its strong body, unique character, the bones, high ornamental value and economic value and by the world's love and favor. Wang Wei, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem saying: "Ginkgo planted as a beam, lemongrass knotted as a building, I do not know the clouds in the building, to do the rain on earth". Su Dongpo, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, said in praise of the poem: "The four walls of the peaks and mountains, full of beautiful as a picture. A tree in the sky, circles and articles".

Three, the economic value of the ginkgo tree:

Ginkgo tree trunk straight, the wood is the system of musical instruments, furniture, high-grade materials. Ginkgo wood quality, expensive, known as "silver incense wood" or "silver wood". Ginkgo wood texture with glossy, straight grain, fine structure, easy to process, not warping, strong corrosion resistance, easy to paint, digging nail force is small, and has a special medicinal flavor, strong moth resistance.

Four, ginkgo biloba medicinal value:

Ginkgo biloba medicinal mainly embodied in medicine, pesticides and veterinary medicine in three aspects. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty once said, "Into the lung meridian, beneficial to the spleen, fixed wheezing and coughing, shrinking stool." The Qing Dynasty Zhang Lulu's "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" in the white fruit has the function of reducing phlegm, clearing toxins, killing insects, can treat "scabies, gangrene and tumors, canker sores and ulcers, dental caries, pediatric diarrhea, reddish-white leucorrhoea, chronic gonorrhea, spermatorrhea, and so on". Ming Dynasty Jiangsu, Sichuan and other places had appeared with white fruit concoction of Chinese medicine, used in clinical practice.

Fifth, the beauty value of the ginkgo tree:

1, whitening: ginkgo can reduce the level of lipid peroxidation, reduce freckles, moisturize the skin, beautiful face. Flavonoids contained in ginkgo biloba can impede the formation of pigmentation in the dermis and sedimentation, to whiten the skin and prevent and control the role of pigmentation plaques. In addition to flavonoids, zinc, manganese, molybdenum and other trace elements in ginkgo biloba can also remove oxygen free radicals and inhibit melanin growth.

2, wrinkle: Ginkgo biloba flavonoid glycosides and flavonols are free radicals scavenger, can protect the dermis cells, improve blood circulation, to prevent the cells from being oxidized to produce wrinkles.

3, scavenging free radicals: Ginkgo is one of the herbs with the ability to resist active genes, ginkgo is very effective in protecting lipids (components of cell membranes) from free radical damage. Ginkgo plays multiple roles in protecting cells (especially brain cells). First, it promotes blood circulation and the delivery of oxygen and glucose to cells; second, ginkgo protects cells from free radicals when they threaten them and scavenges free radicals out of the body.

Expanded Information

According to statistics, there are about 12 ginkgo trees in China that are more than 5,000 years old, of which Guizhou Province accounts for nine, which are mainly distributed within 200 kilometers immediately around Guiyang, namely: one in Fuquan, two in Changshun, two in Duyun, two in Zunyi, one in Anshun and one in Majiang.

China's ancient ginkgo corridor is located in Changxing Xiaopu town Baduqiao. 12.5 kilometers long ginkgo forest has become a "original, wild, strange" as the characteristics of the landscape. People say that "it is difficult to see the ancient ginkgo tree group when you walk all over the world". Ginkgo can fully represent the classical elegance, freshness and tranquility of Huzhou, and also represents the spirit of hard work and simplicity of the people of Huzhou.

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