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The ginkgo tree, also known as the white fruit tree, Gongsun tree, was one of the rare species of trees that only existed in our country, known as the "living fossil". The fruit and leaves of the ginkgo tree have high medicinal value and food value. blossom in April, mature in October, the seeds have a long peduncle, pendulous, often ellipsoid, long obovate, ovoid or nearly orbicular. The outer seed coat is fleshy, white powdered, yellow or orange-yellow when ripe.

Ginkgo is a rare species of Mesozoic relics, is a specialty of China, only Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang Province, there is a wild state of the trees, born at an altitude of 500-1,000 meters, acidic (pH 5-5.5) loam, well-drained natural forests in the zone, often mixed with willow, Cephalotaxus, blueberry and other coniferous and broadleaf species, growth is exuberant.

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Morphological Characteristics:

Leaves flabellate, long-stalked. Light green, glabrous, with numerous forked juxtaposed veins, 5-8 cm wide at the tip, often undulate notched on short branches, often 2-lobed on long branches, stalks 3-10 (mostly 5-8) cm long, often more and more y lobed on young trees and budding branches (blades up to 13 cm long and 15 cm wide), leaves spirally dispersed on one-year old growth, 3-8 leaves in clusters on shorter branches, turning yellow in fall before deciduous leaves.?

Bulb dioecious, unisexual, born in the axils of scale-like leaves at the tips of short branches, in clusters; male bulb_catkin-like, pendulous, stamens laxly arranged, shortly pedunculate, anthers often 2, long ellipsoid; female bulb_catkin_pattern with a long peduncle, peduncle end often bifurcate, sparsely 3-5-forked or not forked, each forked apex of a disk-like ovule, ovules inserted thereon, usually only a forked end of the ovules to develop into seeds, the seed is not a seed, the seed is not a seed, it is a seed, the seed is a seed. Wind pollination.

Seeds long-stalked, pendulous, often ellipsoid, long obovate, ovoid, or subglobose, 2.5-3.5 cm long, 2 cm in diameter, with fleshy exocarp, yellow or orange-yellow when ripe, coated with a white powder, and odoriferous leaves; ca. 5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, apex retuse, followed by a fan of leaves starting from the fourth or fifth, with a y cleft apex and an irregular undulating notch, and with a 0.9-2.5 cm petiole; there is a main leaf stalk. -2.5 cm; with a primary root.

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