A large, hardy tree native to China with fan-shaped leaves and distinctive yellow fall color, often planted as an ornamental in cities.
From Japanese 'ginkgo,' which comes from Chinese 'yín-xìng' meaning 'silver apricot,' referring to the tree's fruit. The spelling 'gingko' is an alternate romanization of the Japanese word.
Ginkgo trees are living fossils—they're the last survivors of a type of tree that flourished 200 million years ago, and they're so hardy that some survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, sprouting new growth from their roots afterward.
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