Ginkgo leaf specimen

Ginkgo is a plant of the Ginkgo family and genus. Trees, up to 40 meters tall, with a breast height diameter of up to 4 meters; The bark of young trees is shallow and longitudinally cracked, while the bark of large trees is gray brown, deeply longitudinally cracked, and rough; The crown of the tree is conical in childhood and adulthood, and broadly oval in old age. Leaves fan-shaped, with long stalks, light green, hairless, with many forked parallel fine veins, 5-8 cm wide at the top, often with wavy notches on short branches, often 2-lobed on long branches, and wide wedge-shaped at the base. Ball flowers are dioecious, monoecious, and grow in clusters in the axils of scaly leaves at the top of short branches; The male bulbous flower has a drooping inflorescence like shape. The seeds have long stalks, drooping, and are often elliptical, oblong, ovoid, or nearly spherical in shape.