Ginkgo Gate in Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Australia: Health Minister John Hill, has opened the Adelaide Botanic Gardens' new Garden of Health and the Ginkgo Gate which links the western side of the gardens with Frome Road.
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Illustrated Ginkgo leaves

Lovely Ginkgo Friends by illustrator Amy Cartwright.

Updates of my website The Ginkgo Pages

* New photo photospecial page: Large Ginkgo tree in Ravenna, Italy.
* Added new topic: Film on Ginkgo biloba: 'The sea in the seed'.

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Film on Ginkgo biloba 'The seed in the sea'

Very interesting research film 'The sea in the seed, sperm of Ginkgo biloba and reproductive evolution in plants' , produced by Okada Kazuo; the best scientific film award at Ronda, Spain and TEPIA Grand Prix in Tokyo (2000) - TokyoCinema Inc.
To watch the English version click here. Text click here.
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Updates of my website The Ginkgo Pages

* Update April 2011 topic "Hachiman Ginkgo broke after 1000 years".
* Update on Name-page: revised version research by Prof. Wolfgang Michel on spelling of Ginkgo.

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Beauty of photoluminescent Ginkgo leaves

Etched on a photoluminescent display, these liquid crystal Ginkgo leaves can shift through a trio of autumn colours under the glow of UV light.
Previously, displays made from a single luminescent organic or organometallic compound could only switch between two colour states. Now Takashi Kato and Yoshimitsu Sagara of the University of Tokyo have developed a reversible display that glows red-orange, green or yellow in response to temperature and mechanical force.

The display consists of a mixture of two compounds, one of which harbours a fluorescent centre. When the mixture is heated to 146°C and then cooled to room temperature, it forms the red-orange state. A summer green appears after heating the red-orange colour state to 90°C, applying mechanical shear with a spatula, and then cooling it back to room temperature. Either the red-orange or green states can revert to yellow by shearing the mixture at room temperature.

The findings could be used to develop more cost effective multicolour displays.

Journal reference: Angewandte Chemie, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201100914.
Image: Takashi Kato.
Article from: NewScientist Aug.5, 2011

Ginkgo mural in Manhattan

New York City, Manhattan — An Inwood church brought a splash of color to a neighborhood middle school - Inwood Academy for Leadership - , painting a 1,000-square-foot Ginkgo mural in the outdoor cafeteria as part of its outreach to the community.
The recently created Everyday Church, spearheaded the mural project with the help of a church group that was visiting from Richland Hills, Tex. Ohio artist Tim Parsley, flew in to design the mural.
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South African fashion and Ginkgo 2011

Black Coffee fashion design presented during the South Africa Fashion Week Summer 2011.
Part Ginkgo leaf, part futuristic seminal shape, the disks became a "modular system of interlocking laser-cut garments".
Black Coffee is South African fashion designer Jacques van der Watts label.
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