Ginkgo is a deciduous tree.

Ginkgo is a deciduous tree, dioecious, with fan-shaped leaves. The seeds are oval, with orange-yellow, foul-smelling seed coat, the nuts are edible, and the wood is dense and can be used for carving, which is a specialty of our country, also known as "Gongsun Tree".

Introduction of Ginkgo

Ginkgo is a plant of the family Ginkgoaceae, genus Ginkgo. Trees, up to 40 meters high (have seen reports of trees up to 60 meters high), up to 4 meters in diameter at breast height; young trees bark shallow longitudinal fissure, the bark of large trees is gray-brown, deep longitudinal fissure, rough; juvenile and strong years of the crown conical, the old is broadly ovate; leaves fan-shaped, long-stalked, light green, glabrous, with a majority of forked juxtaposition of fine veins, the apical tip of the width of 5-8 centimeters, in the shorter branches are often with undulating notch.

On the long branches often 2-lobed, the base broadly cuneate, generally late March to early April sprouting spreading leaves; early to mid-April flowering, dioecious; late September to mid-October the female tree fruit ripe, with a long peduncle, pendulous, often ellipsoidal, long obovate, ovoid or subglobose, the seeds are white (commonly known as the white fruit, so the ginkgo is also known as the white fruit tree), late October to November leaf fall.

Ginkgo is a rare species of Mesozoic relics, is one of the world's oldest surviving tree species, known as the plant kingdom of the "living fossil", for China's specialties, only Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang and other places in the wild state of the trees, is now all over the world, almost all of which originated from Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang, as the representative of the eastern population of China's population. The State Council on August 4, 1999 approved the wild ginkgo for the national level protection of wild plants.