Remarkable for its longevity, resilience and distinctive fan-shaped foliage that turns gold in autumn.
The ginkgo is considered one of the world's toughest urban trees: indifferent to pollution, pests and disease, it lives for centuries even along the busiest roads. In autumn its fan-shaped leaves turn a spectacular golden yellow all at once.
It is a 250-million-year-old living fossil, older than the dinosaurs: some specimens even survived the Hiroshima bomb less than two kilometres from the epicentre, and budded again the following spring.
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