• The ginkgo biloba or maidenhair tree is a large deciduous shade tree. It’s considered a living fossil, with the earliest ginkgo fossil dating from 270 million years ago. The common name, maidenhair ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Ginkgo is nearly pest-free and is resistant to storm damage. Young trees are ...

What: Ginkgo biloba, Tubifolia, is a cool variation of a tough tree — how’s 270 million years or so for a track record? Why: Tubifolia has attractively rolled leaves and a slow rate of growth, making ...

A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed researchers to identify a distant relative of the living plant ...