Ginkgo Trees in Washington D.C. There’s a tendency to think of “the natural world” as everything beyond the asphalt. But soil often lies just a couple inches below the concrete, and the design of our ...

Of all the trees that put on an autumn show, the golden splendor of the ginkgo tree is a scene stealer. This ancient tree species has no living relatives and has remained unchanged for 200 million ...

SCRANTON – A small neighborhood park in Green Ridge lost an old tree this week, when the city cut down a large Ginkgo biloba. The Sturgis Park ginkgo, which might have been about 125 years old, was ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The unusual fan-shaped leaves of ancient ginkgo trees (Ginkgo biloba) announce in blazing yellow across North Shore streetscapes and landscapes, beginning this month. These ...

Animals such as horseshoe crabs that have been around for millennia without seeming to change much are sometimes referred to as "living fossils." Among plants, the ginkgo tree could be given the same ...

A Chinese vegetable farmer in rural Madelia came up with the idea to supply ginkgo trees to every town in Minnesota. Despite numerous obstacles, Kun Hung is still determined to see his dream come true ...

The leaves of a heart-shaped ginkgo tree at the Iimori Fureai Hiroba community plaza's parking lot in the city of Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, have turned yellow. Many people are visiting to take ...

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 ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Our present-day "living fossil tree" is nearly identical to leaves found in ...