Ginkgos also possess the gift of dramatic timing. While other trees can take weeks to drop all their leaves in autumn, ginkgos can complete the task within a day. One day you’re admiring the beautiful ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: I have a female ginkgo tree and my (lucky) next-door neighbor has two males. A new ginkgo has self-planted itself in a nice spot in the front yard. Is there any way to tell at this tender age ...

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 ...

Some trees can live for centuries or even millennia but the secrets behind their long life spans have eluded scientists. However, new research has found that the ginkgo tree, which can live more than ...

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 ...

Every fall, there comes a moment as lovely and fleeting as a visit from a butterfly: when the ginkgo trees are golden. The incandescent yellow lasts for just a few days — sometimes only one — and then ...

The largest ginkgo tree in Pennsylvania towers over gravesites at the rear of Lancaster Cemetery. Even after being struck by lightning and having a huge limb ripped off by high winds preceding ...

There are some trees whose showiness does not end once they’ve lost their leaves in autumn. Some trees have an attractive bony framework that is then revealed. Ginkgo tree, for instance. Leafless, a ...