A frosty slip and slide around Waterloo Park on Sunday afternoon was livened up with this rather lovely Ginkgo tree that had shed its gorgeously yellow and strange-shaped leaves. Also known at Maidenhair Tree, it is an endangered species in its native China but was certainly looking a home in Norwich.
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The astonishing thing about Gingkos is that they flourish in an urban environment. There are hundreds in New York, and they line the Seine in Paris. Like Metasequoias they are quite scarce in China, but easy to propagate!
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