GARDENING: Ginkgo’s leaves fall all at once and look like “a patch of sunlight” shining on the ground. The bare tree is pretty too.
This undated photo shows a ginkgo leaf in New Paltz, NY. In addition to their fan shape, leaves of ginkgo trees have a unique venation pattern indicating its origin of this genus millions of years ago.
Leafless, a ginkgo tree, soft and green in summer, appears as if each main limb knows where it is going, jutting boldly and alone into space to give the whole tree a coarse yet pleasant appearance. Instead of twigs, a ginkgo’s stout main branches are dotted with many short, stubby shoots, each an inch or so in length and elongating less than that amount each season.If you come upon a ginkgo that has recently shed its leaves, make sure to look down at the ground.
In treks through China’s interior during the early part of this century, Frank Meyer, a plant explorer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, finally came upon wild ginkgos.
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