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August 29, 2017

Ginkgo trees on New York City Street Map

21,611 Ginkgo trees are highlighted on the New York City Street Tree Map.
The New York City Street Tree Map is the world’s most accurate and detailed map of a city’s street trees. More about this project here.

New York City Parks about the Ginkgo trees in a tweet on Twitter of August 28:


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August 24, 2017

Cool down under an old Ginkgo tree



To cool down in summer it can be as simple as sitting underneath an old Ginkgo tree.
Rural district in China: Ginkgo tree said to be 2,000 years old.

Video by Zhong Zhi on YouTube.

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August 22, 2017

Eclipse in Connecticut and Ginkgo

Peter Del Tredici standing under a tree with pin-hole images of the sun adorning his Ginkgo T-shirt.

Partial eclipse of August 21 in Connecticut , the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

Photo sent to me by Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist, Emeritus, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston.
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 More photos of Ginkgo and eclipse on my Twitter.

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August 20, 2017

Updates of my website The Ginkgo Pages

* New photo on Photospecial page
female Ginkgo tree with seedlings, medieval Chateau de Bourdeilles, France.

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August 05, 2017

Hiroshima Ginkgo trees by Ariel Dorfman in The New York Times


"The whispering leaves of the Hiroshima Ginkgo trees" by Ariel Dorfman in The New York Times:

 "On Aug. 6, 1945, a 14-year-old schoolboy named Akihiro Takahashi was knocked unconscious by a deafening roar and a flash of blinding light. When he awoke, he found that he had been thrown many yards by the detonation of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. He had survived......
I met Mr. Takahashi in 1984, when he was the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.....“You must see the hibakujumoku, the survivor trees,” he said to me...... “You must see the ginkgos.”......
The ginkgo, I learned, was an expert in survival.......Within days of the explosion they had sprouted new greenery...The ginkgos, Mr. Takahashi said, expressed  the endurance of hope, the need for peace and reconciliation.....
Decades later, we purchased two specimens and paid to have them planted along the street we live on, and we persuaded the city forestry department to plant a third nearby.....I watered these miraculous trees every day and greeted them each morning......
Though our particular trees are safe, I am haunted by deeper, more ominous thoughts about how this great survivor now seems threatened by the depredations of modernity....
How paradoxical, how sad, how stupid, it would be if...... we did not understand that warning from the past, that call to the future, what the gentle leaves of the ginkgo trees are still trying to tell us."

Read full piece in The New York Times of August 4, 2017.

More info and photos of the Hiroshima Ginkgo trees on my website.

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