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Ginkgo biloba
Ginkgo
Ginkgoaceae
Located in median of W.B. Young parking lot
- leaves alternate, deciduous, unlike coniferous evergreens, resembling
a broadleaf angiosperm
- leaves triangular or fan-shaped, almost 2-lobed
- leaves bright green, with dichotomous venation, yellow in fall
- leaves borne in groups from spurs on older wood, singly on young
shoots
- stems thick, coarse, smooth, light brown when young, gray when old
- stems feature bullet-shaped spurs when old
- spurs have many tight growth rings, brown bud on tip
- flowers inconspicuous, in spring
- fruit globose, pendant, tan/orange color
- fruit one-seeded, pulp has rank odor
- dioecious species, only female plants bear fruit
- bark fissured, light gray or brown
- habit is a pyramidal tree medium to large tree, spreading when old
- plant has upright, ascending branches with few laterals
View Ginkgo
biloba page in the UConn Plant Database
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