Ginkgo
Ginkgo biloba
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Ginkgo biloba
- Group
- Gymnosperm
- Order
- Ginkgoales
- Family
- Ginkgoaceae
- Continent
- Asia
- Habitat
- Forest
- Form
- Tree
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- No flowers
- Blooms in
- Never blooms
- Use
- Medicine, Ornamental
- Conservation status
- Endangered
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Ginkgo is a living fossil: leaves very like today's are known from fossils more than 150 million years old.
- Several ginkgo trees survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and still grow there.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q43284 · All plants · All entries