"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
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jOhN wrote:
The trees are long lived individually as well, when I went to Japan a
couple of years ago I saw a 1000 year old ginkgo at a big shrine in
Kamakura.
http://www.pbase.com/tomokon/image/27397885

Yup, pretty impressive tree. It's even prettier in its fall garb.

I'd suggest that anyone who plants more than one ginko tree, make sure
they're of the same sex. I used to walk past a female ginko on the U of
Illinois campus and thought the "aroma" of the fallen fruit was the smell of
campus-dog poop.

David