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 ...

One of the most interesting trees that can locally be grown is a ginkgo tree. It was called a "living fossil" by Darwin because it is basically the same tree found in fossils from more than 200 ...

Ginkgo tolerates a wide range of rough conditions such as downtown urban sites, smoky areas, air pollution and confined root system spaces. Howard Garrett / Special Contributor I have one of the ...

Occasionally male trees undergo a metamorphosis and begin dropping smelly seeds. That's what Robinson suspects happened to an Iowa City tree after decades without problems. ... IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - ...