Ginkgo trees are either male or female, and they reproduce when a sperm from a male tree, carried by grains of pollen floating on the wind, connects with a seed on a female tree and fertilizes it, not ...

“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 ...

The essence of autumn arrives first through scent. The smell of a long history, transcending regions. For instance, Gangnam District has the most street trees in Seoul. Among them, ginkgo trees are ...

WASHINGTON — The D.C. Department of Transportation starts its annual spraying of female ginkgo trees on Wednesday in an effort to keep the city smelling fresh later this year. The fruit of the ginkgo ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- 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," ...

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 ...

On the grounds of Cayuga Museum of History and Art grows possibly the largest ginkgo tree in New York state. According to museum director Eileen McHugh, the tree could be at least a century old. "We ...