Ginkgo

Ginkgo biloba

• Height: usually up to 20 m, exceptions up to 40 m
• Trunk: brown-grey bark, deeply fissured or reticulate
• Crown: very open, initially slender, later becoming increasingly rounded
• Leaves: long-stalked, fan-shaped leaves, up to 10 cm long, leathery and tough, 2-lobed, with forked veins, fresh green, strikingly yellow in autumn
• Flowers: Male flowers in hanging catkins; inconspicuous female flowers, in clusters in leaf axils, from March to May
• Fruits/Seeds: Stone-fruit-like fruits, yellow like mirabelle plums, with a strong, unpleasant odor resembling a "stink bomb"
• Other: The ginkgo is the only living representative of the Ginkgoopsida, a distinct class of gymnosperms, and is therefore neither a deciduous nor a coniferous tree

^{Photos: BUND Naturschutz in Bayern (1,2,3)}