The species is often referred to as a living fossil—a category that also includes horseshoe crabs and royal ferns, among others—because it’s a remnant of a once diverse group that existed millions of ...

Ginkgo trees at Bell Tower Green. The leaf color on the maples, oaks and hickories are outstanding. The ginkgo trees located near the new Bell Tower Park are culminating the season with a spectacular ...

Autumn's technicolor event, as far as trees go, has just about wrapped up its show. The ginkgo tree's bright yellow display was one of the last to be whisked away in autumn wind. As nature renders the ...

I’m blessed, or cursed, with a sensitive nose. And the nasty smell rising from the ground triggered all my gag reflexes. I was in Los Angeles to start a horticulture internship with a huge wholesale ...

WASHINGTON — Richard Barclay opens a metal drawer in archives of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum containing fossils that are nearly 100 million years old. Despite their age, these rocks aren’t ...

If the staid residents of Washington should see a dinosaur ambling through Rock Creek Park, they would be surprised. Logically they should be just as surprised at the ginkgo trees, imported from China ...

On the grounds of Cayuga Museum of History and Art grows possibly the largest ginkgo tree in New York state. According to museum director Eileen McHugh, the tree could be at least a century old. "We ...