Defn: A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferæ.
The Russell house was again a Palace Beautiful in its mantle of vines, and the judge sat on the rustic bench beneath the Ginkgo tree, his hands on his stick and a faraway look in his eyes.
He lives in the house that needs paint so badly,--where you have noticed that beautifulGinkgo tree.
The grounds were ample for a city; and the tall Ginkgo tree which reached out its fern-like branches protectingly toward the timeworn mansion was only one of many other fine trees and shrubs.
To him is credited the introduction of the Ginkgo tree and the Lombardy poplar to America.
We could hardly leave the Carboniferous time without at least brief mention of the ginkgo tree (Figure 109), or, as some call it, the maidenhair tree.
Among modern flowering plants only the ginkgoand the relatives of the sago palm or cycads retain this relic of an overwhelmingly cryptogamous ancestry.
In other words, we have just missed seeing in the ginkgo what has so many times happened to these very ancient types of vegetation, namely, their final extinction.
Ginkgo nuts are never eaten afresh, we eat them sometimes roasted and most times cooked with meats.
I hope you will try the above two kinds nuts by the above way, as Ginkgo can live over thousand years and Torreya in this country is also long lived, their nut fat would keep the human tissue less easy to decay.
Ginkgo biloba, which may reach a height of over 30 metres, forms a tree of pyramidal shape with a smooth grey bark.
On account of the resemblance of the leaves to those of some species of Adiantum, the appellation maidenhair tree has long been given to Ginkgo biloba.
The most thrilling things were sagittaria and ginkgo seeds!
The ginkgo trees seem to be even more closely related to the Cordaites, and evolved from an early and generalised branch of that group.
The ginkgo was introduced into European gardens in 1754, and there are now many fruiting specimens, especially in France, from whence the nuts have long been secured for planting, by nurserymen and others interested in tree culture.
As the trees do not begin to bear until of considerable age, and the nuts are inferior to many other kinds, I do not think the ginkgo will ever become very popular in this country as a nut tree.
The Ginkgo belongs by descent to the coniferous tree group.
Here we see the Ginkgo trees, two of them bearing.
Most of the Ginkgo trees are males, but one may graft any number of males with bearing female scions.
Its prehistoric enemies have died out, so the ginkgo tree has come rolling along down the centuries without enemies and at the same time with many peculiarities.
I have included among the specimens here today nuts of the ginkgo because that tree belongs among the conifers in natural order.
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