Ginkgo seed germination recording

 

David Beard shows a wonderful video on YouTube of the germination of a Ginkgo seed.

He made his video over a period of two months and recorded on a daily basis.

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Unique Ginkgo leaves colours in Osaka, Japan

 

The edges of these Ginkgo leaves do not turn yellow but show a contrasting green colouring. Very special and beautiful! Location Osaka, Japan.

Enlargement of this photo on my Photo Special-page on my website.

Photo courtesy Sando Tomoki. Thank you!

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Merry Christmas - Happy 2021

Wishing all visitors of my forum-blog, website The Ginkgo Pages , YouTube channel and Twitter 

 Merry Christmas - Happy 2021

 

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Cor Kwant

 

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2020 Ginkgo trees in fall on my Twitter

Visit my Twitter account The Ginkgo Tweets : many photos/videos/news about the Ginkgo tree in fall, for instance: 

 

Check out the stunning view of two 1,300-year-old ginkgo trees whose leaves turn luminous golden yellow in China's Shaanxi. #AmazingChina pic.twitter.com/7h3TAt1HYt

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) November 5, 2020

Today I was attacked by a cluster of ginkgo leaves. pic.twitter.com/Pd5mBgRQ5n

— geronimo (@geronim76006585) November 11, 2020

Howard Nemerov - poem 'The Consent' https://t.co/9gkCpAQsWS pic.twitter.com/8yb0GVAnzO

— The Ginkgo Tweets (@theginkgopages) November 14, 2020

#ChinaStory The metro in Chengdu, Sichuan province is full of ginkgo biloba. Is your subway commute this beautiful? pic.twitter.com/BpB8RN8xGW

— China Daily (@ChinaDaily) November 11, 2020

A gingko tree shedding its leaves. Fukuoka, Japan. #gingko #autumnleaves pic.twitter.com/AlUd0giKRd

— Cami H (@trulycami) December 5, 2017

 

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Ginkgo tree - 800 years - in South Korea

 

Ginkgo tree of about 800 years old is growing in South Korea, address 779, Ungok-ri, Seoha-myeon, Hamyang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do.

Height c. 38 m, girth c. 8.75 m.

It was planted when the village was settled and is the symbol of this village. It is also called "ginkgo tree arbor" and "ginkgo tree village".

Natural monument no. 406.

Video by MBC on YouTube.

 

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Naomi Berrill plays "Ginkgo biloba"

 Naomi Berrill plays "Ginkgo biloba"

 

Naomi is an Irish cellist and singer, now living in Italy.

 "Ginkgo biloba" is inspired by the poem by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (on my website). 

Like the leaves of this tree - made up of different parts - the piece also consists of different elements, combining music, poetry and nature.

 

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Ginkgo fossil Triassic

Ginkgophyte Baiera fossil from the Triassic of Antarctica.

More about Ginkgo fossils on my website: Fossils-page.

Picture by Brian Atkinson.

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Update of my website The Ginkgo Pages

* New photo on Photospecial page: Ginkgo bark and leaves.

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Art Nouveau Pharmacie du Ginkgo, Nancy

 Art Nouveau

 Ginkgo mosaic

 on floor of Pharmacie du Ginkgo, Nancy

 
Interior decoration by Louis Majorelle, architect Paul Charbonnier
38 Rue des Dominicans,  Nancy, France
1915

This is one of my photos of Ginkgo and Art Nouveau. Enlargement of this photo and many more photos of this Pharmacie du Ginkgo here. 

More info and photos of Ginkgo and Art Nouveau in l'Ecole de Nancy here.


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Unfolding Ginkgo leaves

It is spring,  beautiful timelapse video of unfolding Ginkgo leaves.
Ginkgo trees come into leaf later than most other trees.

More about the leaves on my website: Tree-page.

Video on YouTube.

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Sprouting Ginkgo leaf

Sprouting Ginkgo leaves in my garden, a new beginning....

Enlargement of this photo on the Photospecial-page of my website.

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Kosode with Ginkgo leaves, Edo period

Piece from a Kosode with Ginkgo leaves, waves and butterflies.
Japan, Edo period (1603-1868).

Resist-dyed and painted-plain weave silk crepe (chirimen), embroidered with silk and metallic thread.
21.9 x 24 cm.

From the collection of the MET Museum, New York.


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Ginkgo trees near Mount Fuji

Ginkgo trees and more fall foliage near Mount Fuji.

Location: Honshu, Lake Yamanaka, Yamanakako Plaza "Kirara", Yamanaka, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.



Picture: Machipo.jp
Video by SkyCloudLake on YouTube.

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Update of my website The Ginkgo Pages

* Update Tree-page with article by Li Wang et al.:
 Culture - Ginkgo almost immortal + article added to Literature-page.
 
* New topic: 
Ginkgo tree almost immortal study reveals.
 
* New photo on Photospecial page:
 Ginkgo "Heksenbezem Leiden" in my garden.

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Ginkgo almost immortal study reveals

The Ginkgo tree can live more than 3000 years. Now researchers published an article (PNAS, Wang et al., 2020) that reveals the mechanisms that make Ginkgo survive so long by comparing very old and young Ginkgos in China.

Most plants eventually reach senescence (biological aging). Genes responsible for that life phase weren’t any more active in the oldest Ginkgo specimen. Antioxidants and antimicrobials to stay healthy appeared to be just as active in the old Ginkgo trees as they were in the young ones, as were genes related to the Ginkgo immune system.
"There’s no end point in their ability to keep growing," says Rick Dixon, a biochemist at the University of North Texas and co-author of the paper. "The immune system in these trees, even though they’re 1,000 years old, looks like that of a 20-year-old.”

From the article:
"Our results reveal that long-lived trees have evolved compensatory mechanisms to maintain a balance between growth and aging processes. This involves continued cambial divisions, high expression of resistance-associated genes, and continued synthetic capacity of preformed protective secondary metabolites."

Article:
PNAS.org 

Read more:
BBC
Science
The New York Times
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