lat. name: Ginkgo biloba

Planted around 1870 in the villa garden of Dr. Rabl
Home: East Asia
Family: Ginkgo plants

The ginkgo is a deciduous tree, which has a special position in the history of development in the plant kingdom, because it is half conifer as a "naked seeded" plant and half deciduous tree after the leaf.
Ginkgo is the only living representative of the Ginkgoales, an extinct group of seed plants.
In East Asia the tree is cultivated for its edible seeds or as a temple tree. Dutch sailors brought the first Ginkgo trees from Japan to Europe, where it has been ...