Ginkgo
(Ginkgo biloba)

 Tree Description

    Usually pyramidal when young, eventually developing an irregular crown with large branches. Spur shoots are present.

Leaf Description
 

• Leaf Texture is glabrous
  
• Leaf Margin is entire but can be lobed at the broad edge
• Leaf Venation is parallel 
• Leaf Arrangement is alternate
• Leaf Division is simple
• Leaf Attachment is petiolate
• Leaf is fan-shaped

 Bark Description
       

  The bark is light grayish-brown with irregular ridges, eventually becoming deeply furrowed.

Twig and Bud Description

   The twig is light brown, becoming gray with numerous and obvious spur shoots. Buds are dome-shaped and reddish-brown.

 Fruit Description
    The fruit is actually a naked seed; 1 inch long, with a fleshy covering that develops a strong, unpleasant odor when ripe. The seed is edible. It matures in autumn after the first frost.

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Resources:

• http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/main.htm
• Symonds, George W. D. The Tree Identification Book. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1958.
• Trees and Nonflowering Plants. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.,1998