The Ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba) is a living fossil, virtually unchanged from the age of the dinosaurs! 🦕 It’s a very adaptable urban tree, readily coping with compacted soil, salt, air pollution, and drought. But #DYK that Ginkgo was once known only from fossil records and thought to have become exinct after the dinosaurs? Fossils show that Ginkgo disappeared between 2.5 and 7 million years ago. A small population survived in China - it’s likely that clonal reproduction and new seed dispersers