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| Submission
by: |
Teresa Rhodes |
| Species Common Name: |
Ginkgo |
| Species
Scientific Name: |
Ginkgo biloba |
| Tree Category: |
Unique |
| Significance of Tree: |
In University
Park, surrounding the beautiful fountain, is a collection of stately
ginkgo trees. Although admittedly the female ginkgo drops fruit that
smells of vomit and decay, the male of this species does not; (The
tree does not bear fruit for the first twenty to fifty years of its
life!) and they are spectacular trees. They also thrive in urban
settings. And of course, they are one of the oldest trees growing on
earth, dating back for 150 to 200 million years (not these particular
trees by the way,) and were native to North America at one time.
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| Address of Tree: |
Corner of Vermont and
Pennsylvania Avenue |
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