Ginkgo Biloba

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Pour celles et ceux qui aiment le ginkgo, voici -en partage- le fond d'écran que j'ai installé sur ma tablette Apple. N'hésitez pas à le télécharger.

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Ginkgo biloba tree on the side of a medival truss house in Lemgo

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Le titre est long, je sais.

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The new South London Botanical Institute logo, the ginkgo, featured in the cake display.

Location: South London Botanical Institute, London, England
Date: 25 March 2010
Event: SLBI Centenary Mosaic unveiling

2010 is the South London Botanical Institute Centenary Year - please see the What's On section for special events celebrating this historic occasion:

www.slbi.org.uk/

A large Ginkgo biloba tree grows the SLBI front garden - the reason for the 'Ginkgo cakes'.

The Ginkgo biloba leaves are unique among seed plants, being fan-shaped with veins radiating out into the leaf blade, sometimes bifurcating (splitting) but never anastomosing to form a network. Two veins enter the leaf blade at the base and fork repeatedly in two; this is known as dichotomous venation. The leaves are usually 5–10 cm (2-4 inches), but sometimes up to 15 cm (6 inches) long. The old popular name "Maidenhair tree" is because the leaves resemble some of the pinnae of the Maidenhair fern Adiantum capillus-veneris.

Leaves of long shoots are usually notched or lobed, but only from the outer surface, between the veins. They are borne both on the more rapidly-growing branch tips, where they are alternate and spaced out, and also on the short, stubby spur shoots, where they are clustered at the tips.

Have a look at the leaves and fruits of a G. biloba growing in Morden Hall Park (London Borough of Merton): www.flickr.com/photos/jennyn/3077601240/in/set-7215760697...


[photo ref: 2010 March 25, SLBI Centenary mosaic unveiling (1)]

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L'histoire du ginkgo qui voulait grandir et qui pour cela s'était affublé d'un chapeau en forme de pot aux roses…