Ginkgo biloba 'Magyar'
Object Details
- Description
- This is a male ginkgo cultivar which does not produce fruit, and has an upright form. Its seemingly exotic cultivar name belies the fact that it was discovered growing in front of a bank in New Jersey.
- Hardiness
- -30 - -20 F
- Bloom Time
- April
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Range
- Cultivated
- Topic
- Trees
- Living Collections
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- Smithsonian Gardens Tree Collection
- On Display
- National Portrait Gallery
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Accession Number
- 2012-1487A
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Common Name
- Magyar Ginkgo
- Maidenhair Tree
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Ginkgoidae
- Order
- Ginkoales
- Family
- Ginkgoaceae
- Genus
- Ginkgo
- Species
- biloba
- Life Form
- Deciduous tree
- Average Height
- 40-60'
- Bark Characteristics
- Gray to brown and slightly ridged.
- Bloom Characteristics
- Male flowers which bloom in catkins.
- Fall Color
- Yellow
- Foliage Characteristics
- Simple, alternate, fan shaped leaves with entire margins and a notched apex. Grow on spurs in clusters of 3-5.
- Fruit Characteristics
- N/A
- Structure
- Young: conical Mature: spreading
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2012-1487A
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