Visitors to Nova Scotia's Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens might want to watch where they step. Staff there had long believed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens staff initially dismissed a suggestion by a visitor that their 40-year-old ginkgo tree had ...

Chinese pistachio (Pistacia chinense) joins ginkgo and tallow tree in a noteworthy group of deciduous species indigenous to ...

Q. I have read that ginkgo trees can live for hundreds of years. Is this true, and what makes them so unusual? Why are they called “living fossils”? A. Modern ginkgoes belong to a single species of ...

I’ve been dazzled in recent weeks by the autumn color of the ginkgo trees along my usual routes around Greenville, especially on McDaniel Avenue and Augusta Street. The trees are a bright green ...

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 ...

“The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that ...

Discover why ginkgo trees drop their golden leaves all at once, and how decades of data from a beloved UNH ginkgo reveal shifting fall climate patterns.

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 ...