On 4 Dec 2000 21:54:08 GMT, una at mercury.cis.yale.edu (Una Smith)
wrote:
>Ginkgo biloba is in no danger of extinction; the fruits are an
>important COMMERCIAL nut WIDELY used in Chinese cooking, the leaves
>are used WORLDWIDE in MANY POPULAR MEDICINES, and BOTH sexes are
>common as street trees.
>
I think you don't want to admit this is not true. Why? I wonder....
>>kwantenzap at xs4all.nl (CorK) writes:
>>>Where did you observe street trees?
>>Female specimens of Ginkgo biloba with which I am well acquainted,
>having stepped on their smelly rotting fruits:
>>New Haven, CT: Sachem Street; also along Chapel Street (downtown)
>Cambridge, MA: Harvard, outside the Museum of Comparative Zoology
>Manhattan, NY: Upper West Side, along Broadway
>>In New Haven, there is also a solitary specimen in Wooster Park. I
>don't know its sex: it has produced no fruits that I have seen, but
>that doesn't mean it is male. Apart from this specimen, all Ginkgo
>trees I know of are planted in mixed-sex or all-female populations.
>>--
> Una Smith una.smith at yale.edu>> Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
> Yale University
