Outstanding Features:
Attractive fan shaped leaves, clear yellow fall color.

Description:
Height: 40-60'
Width: 20-40'
Hardiness Zone: 4a

Ginkgo is a relic tree species that is well adapted to city conditions. It has attractive, clean green fan shaped leaves which develop a clear yellow fall color. Its form is pyramidal, broadening with age and becoming picturesque. Sexes are separate. Female trees develop a malodorous, fleshy seed about 1" in diameter. Male trees are often propagated and planted to eliminate the problem.

Requirements and Culture:
Prefers a good loam soil with adequate moisture. Easily transplanted but growth rate is slow especially following transplanting. Adaptable to a wide range of soil pH. Tolerant of air pollution. Full sun.

Limitations:
No serious insect or disease problems. Slow growth rate has unduly limited its use. The odor and messy litter of the fleshy seed has prompted some cities to pass ordinances banning the planting of female Ginkgo trees.

Selected Cultivars:

`Princeton Sentry' - has a broad columnar to slightly pyramidal habit.

`Fastigiata' - has a distinctly upright columnar form. Good choice where horizontal space is limited.

Photo Credit: 1 E. Hasselkus; 2 MLA. Photo 1 is `Fastigiata'.

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