Howard Garrett / Special Contributor The ginkgo trees in North Texas put on a good show this fall, and that has led to many questions about this prehistoric tree. I have arguably the fastest-growing ...

“The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that ...

Q. I have read that ginkgo trees can live for hundreds of years. Is this true, and what makes them so unusual? Why are they called “living fossils”? A. Modern ginkgoes belong to a single species of ...

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 ...

I’ve been dazzled in recent weeks by the autumn color of the ginkgo trees along my usual routes around Greenville, especially on McDaniel Avenue and Augusta Street. The trees are a bright green ...

"The tree that survived Hiroshima," "prehistoric tree," "living fossil"... Ginkgo biloba has been given many labels, not always accurate, which overshadow one of its greatest peculiarities: its ...

In the 200 block of South Main Street in Salisbury are what have been described as “living fossils.” Commonly known as the ginkgo tree or Maidenhair tree the Ginkgo biloba is the only living species ...

Autumn's technicolor event, as far as trees go, has just about wrapped up its show. The ginkgo tree's bright yellow display was one of the last to be whisked away in autumn wind. As nature renders the ...

The ginkgo tree is renowned for its hardiness, surviving everything from road salt to an atomic bomb, but it may be undone by another trait _ it reeks. "It's pretty disgusting," said Jan Schneider, an ...

He’s mad as hell — and he’s not going to rake it anymore! Bay Ridge resident Richard Mahany is so angry that the city won’t chop down a stinky ginkgo tree that dumps its foul-smelling fruit on the ...