Ginkgo biloba from Kashmir

[Gurcharan Singh]

Ginkgo biloba from Kashmir. Earlier a single tree was growing in the Garden of Govt.  Museum at Lal Mandi. Now it has been planted at many places. First three photographs are from  Botanical Garden near Cheshmashahi on June 24, 2010. The last one with berries was taken in California in September, 2009

Commen name: Maidenhair-tree

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

[tanay bose]

Thanks for posting the photos of the living fpssil.

Tanay

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[Muthu Karthick]

Happy to see this Gymnos

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Junior Research Fellow
Care Earth Trust
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[Pankaj Kumar]

Thanks for sharing. They say that the fruit on female tree stinks a
lot and at one point it was banned from plantation in US. We have one
small one in our campus.
Regards
Pankaj

[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes Pankaj ji

I have also heard about it but there is a long avenue of nearly twenty or so female trees on El Camino Road, and I never felt any stink, nor residents in the area reported about it. I even tried to crush one, but nothing significant. 

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Dr Pankaj Kumar]

That reminds me of one joke where a competition is held on who can get
more milk from the cow tied inside each stable. Standing outside are
all politicians, who enter one by one and come back with buckets
filled at different levels. When Laloo goes in, he takes a lot of time
and after few days when he comes out it shouts, "THIS IS CHEATING,
THEY GAVE ME A BULL".....

So the bottom line is, may be fruits were not fertilized there in El
Camino Road as all 20 plants were female....

My apologies, but my intention was not to hurt you. Hope you will take
this as a joke only.
Regards
Pankaj

On Aug 7, 8:15 pm, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes Pankaj ji
> I have also heard about it but there is a long avenue of nearly twenty or so
> female trees on El Camino Road, and I never felt any stink, nor residents in
> the area reported about it. I even tried to crush one, but nothing
> significant.
>
> --
> Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> Retired  Associate Professor
> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.

> Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

[Rajendra Shinde]

Hello,

I had taken these pictures in Berkeley, USA. The structure seen in the axils - are they male cones/ flowers?

Shinde

[Gurcharan Singh]

Pankaj ji

Why should I mind? I am not from Bihar.

Just another joke!!!

-- 
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Pankaj Kumar]

:)

[tanay bose]

Great Joke, I too read the same thing but I also have seen a female plant but it had no foul odour!!

Tanay