Ginkgo biloba Trees

Pot Grown Ginkgo biloba Saplings: Male Only Clones

The Ginkgo biloba tree (Maidenhair) is a slow growing, odd looking tree with branches that are covered in small, lobed leaves. They prefer well drained, acidic soil and are suitable for inner city planting.

The leaves emerge from very short stalks all along the branches, are usually bi-lobed, a bit like moth wings. The leaves turn a charming range of warm yellows and golds in Autumn. Female trees carry clusters of pale green, spherical seeds that make an unpleasant mess, which is why these male clones are by far the most popular.

Ginkgo biloba can reach a height of about 40 metres with a trunk ten metres in diameter if they are grown in an open space, but that will take a few hundred years.

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• Male clones (no messy fruit)
• World's oldest tree.
• Technically native everywhere on Earth
• Prefers acidic soil.
• Suitable for city planting.
• Slow growing.
• Max Height 40m
• Year round delivery.

Did You Know?

Frequently misspelled Gingko, these unique trees are the sole survivors of the Ginkgo family, which is the oldest extant tree species on earth, going back at least 270 million years. They were previously classified as Salisburia adiantifolia, and are affectionately known as the Fossil Tree; their Japanese name is Icho.

Despite its leaf shape, ginkgo is a conifer, although you would never guess.
These trees are extremely hardy. They resist disease and insect attack, are happy on polluted roadsides, survived at least two ice ages, and withstood whatever firestorms the Allies inflicted on Japanese civilian centres in World War Two; there are a number of large Ginkgo trees less than a mile from the Hiroshima epicentre to prove it.