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maidenhair trees are 'living fossils' and your new favourite plant

  • Written by Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, The University of Melbourne
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Most of us are captivated by the thought of a “living fossil”, which is any organism that appeared millions of years ago in the fossil record and survives today, relatively unchanged.

The maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba, ticks all the boxes of this definition. The genus Ginkgo is well known in China and Japan...

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