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 ...

“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 ...

Ginkgo biloba 'Troll' is a dwarf, spreading variety. The straight species may grow 100 feet tall; this one forms a mound perhaps 3 feet tall and wide so it can be grown in a small garden or a ...

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 ...