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"Flame" war?

The short answer is that Ginkgos are extremely long-lived trees and you probably don't have mature natural specimens to evaluate or appreciate unless you are lucky enough to live in an area where the tree is native. This is completely understandable - it would be a little like asking someone to appreciate a Giant Sequoia who had never seen one that wasn't in a nursery can at Target.

While it is actually rather difficult to get a ginkgo to grow with multi trunked flame shape, that is the characteristic shape of ginkgo and a few other trees that grow in columnar shapes, like maybe a poplar.

Pictures?

This site has scads of venerable ginkgo trees. These are the ginkgos you wanted to see. It is slow to load though.

http://www.kyoboku.com/itefu/ichou1.html

You can also check out some of the trees in Cor's Ginkgo pages.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/kumamoto.htm (~1,000 years old!)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/kumamoto2.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/strasbourg1.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/Zuidhorn1.jpg

Regards,

Matt

12-Dec-2004	#2
TreeBay Tips:5¢ Advice:Free *MODERATOR GROUP* Join Date: Aug-2001 Location: Silicon Valley Country: USA USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: 4 Posts: 9,745	"Flame" war? The short answer is that Ginkgos are extremely long-lived trees and you probably don't have mature natural specimens to evaluate or appreciate unless you are lucky enough to live in an area where the tree is native. This is completely understandable - it would be a little like asking someone to appreciate a Giant Sequoia who had never seen one that wasn't in a nursery can at Target. While it is actually rather difficult to get a ginkgo to grow with multi trunked flame shape, that is the characteristic shape of ginkgo and a few other trees that grow in columnar shapes, like maybe a poplar. Pictures? This site has scads of venerable ginkgo trees. These are the ginkgos you wanted to see. It is slow to load though. http://www.kyoboku.com/itefu/ichou1.html You can also check out some of the trees in Cor's Ginkgo pages. http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/kumamoto.htm (~1,000 years old!) http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/kumamoto2.htm http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/strasbourg1.jpg http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/Zuidhorn1.jpg Regards, Matt __________________ Want to be a seller on bonsaiAUCTIONS? Get authorized today! bonsaiTALK: Over 100,005.36 Megabytes Served this Month!