In the greenhouse atop Carnegie Science Hall, a green seedling peeks up from an unassuming black pot. Small but storied, this plant has traveled the world to put down roots here in Lewiston. The ...

This undated photo shows a ginkgo leaf in New Paltz, NY. In addition to their fan shape, leaves of ginkgo trees have a unique venation pattern indicating its origin of this genus millions of years ago ...

TOKYO (AP) — Miho Nakashima stood in a bathing suit in Tokyo on Sunday next to a 100-year-old gingko tree, her body painted head-to-toe in green leaves and brown branches. Her message was clear, and ...

ENCINITAS (KGTV) — Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing at Hiroshima, and a living piece of that history grows in San Diego's Botanic Garden in Encinitas. A small ginkgo tree, planted ...

Q. I have read that ginkgo trees can live for hundreds of years. Is this true, and what makes them so unusual? Why are they called “living fossils?” A. Modern ginkgoes belong to a single species of ...

FOR ANIMALS IN PARKS. DES MOINES, PARKS AND REC PLANTED A NEW TREE TODAY RIGHT ALONG THE DES MOINES RIVER. BUT THIS GINGKO TREE HAS QUITE THE HISTORY. ITS SEEDS CAME FROM ANOTHER TREE THAT SURVIVED ...

In Lancaster city, there’s a ginkgo tree that’s grown big enough to be the state champion. But its size isn’t what most impresses Len Eiserer. This tree’s pedigree is also worth noting: it was planted ...

TOKYO (AP) — Miho Nakashima stood in a bathing suit in Tokyo on Sunday next to a 100-year-old gingko tree, her body painted head-to-toe in green leaves and brown branches. Her message was clear, and ...

There are some trees whose showiness does not end once they’ve lost their leaves in autumn. Some trees have an attractive bony framework that is then revealed. Ginkgo tree, for instance. Leafless, a ...

This undated photo shows a ginkgo leaf in New Paltz, NY. In addition to their fan shape, leaves of ginkgo trees have a unique venation pattern indicating its origin of this genus millions of years ago ...