Ginkgo biloba

Maidenhair Tree/Ginkgo

Height: 15m

Habit and Growth Rate: Mature height comes with extreme age, rate is slow at first, and then moderate, very long lived. Pyramidal to upright, becoming rounded. Opened structure and strongly branched.

Foliage: Alternate; simple; lobed; fan shaped. Medium green in summer turning a brilliant yellow in the autumn.

Comments: Ginkgo biloba is a slow growing tree that is very tolerant of many urban soils and extremes like pollution and compaction. Once established, Ginkgo’s will tolerate periods of drought.

Mt William Advanced Tree Nursery only grow budded forms of the male Ginkgo which do not produce the bad smelling fruits like the seedling forms of the female Ginkgo. You are unable to tell at seedling stage, which is male, or female hence we grow only male cultivars.

At the nursery we do regular formative pruning to form one central leader, and our advice is to maintain regular pruning for the first couple of years to maintain this central leader, which is essential, for good form in later years.

 All plant dimensions are estimates only and ultimate size and growth rates will depend on growing conditions, particularly when used in some urban environments. All estimates are based around a 20-year time frame. With maturity most species will grow larger.

Reference:

Edward F. Gilman 1997 Trees for Urban and Suburban Landscapes
David More & John White 2003 Cassell’s Trees Of Britain & Northern Europe.