Lon Po Po -Little red riding hood- and Ginkgo

There are many versions of the fairy tale 'Little Red Riding Hood' around the world.
 'Lon Po Po' is the Chinese version written by Ed Young: three children outsmart a wolf by tricking it into falling from a Ginkgo tree.

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Archaeopteryx in shower of Ginkgo leaves

 

Late Jurassic period, c. 150 million years ago: drawing of Archaeopteryx , the oldest bird (or is it a dinosaur closely related to the origin of birds?), in a shower of Ginkgo leaves.

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Ginkgo Matsusaka Castle, Japan

 Ginkgo tree near the ruins of  Matsusaka Castle, Mie Prefecture, Japan.

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Ginkgo village watercolor painting

  Ginkgo Village 

Watercolor painting by Kristin Kane - Butterfly Woman.

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Sculpture Bodhisattva Milo - Maitreya and Ginkgo

The Bodhisattva Milo (Sanskrit Maitreya), seated in "Pensive Pose", ca. 575.
Northern Qi dynasty
H: 33.0 W: 17.5 D: 15.4 cm
China

"This sculpture of a bodhisattva, or enlightened being, probably represents the Buddha of the Future (Maitreya in the Indian language Sanskrit) while he was waiting to be reborn into the world as a Buddha. Maitreya waits in heaven meditating beneath a Dragon Tree, which Chinese sculptors typically interpreted to be a ginkgo, like the tree here. The depiction of children emerging from lotuses in a pond on the base of this sculpture is a rare detail on an image of Maitreya."

Found at the website of  The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art.

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* New photos and video on my website  photospecial page:   Old Ginkgo with witches broom, Kronenburgpark in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Ginkgo adiantoides fossil

Ginkgo adiantoides, Paleocene, Scotland

Fossil: Ginkgo adiantoides from the Tertiary period (56 million years ago) is remarkably similar to modern Ginkgo biloba.
I took this photo at Naturalis Museum, Leiden.
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Giant Ginkgo of Hongou, Japan

Satomi Takataki, Giant Ginkgo of Hongou, Japan.
Wonderful photos of this old tree on this blog.

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Plate with Ginkgo leaf, Meissen porcelain

Plate with Ginkgo leaf design.

Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH, Porcelain Museum Meissen, Germany.

"Jugendstil" design by Prof. Heinz Werner, inspired by Goethe's poem about the Ginkgo, 1984.

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Ginkgo trees in Bologna, Italy

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I took this photo in 2012 of 15 Ginkgo trees, Piazza de’ Calderini, Bologna, Italy. In this area are many Ginkgo trees.
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