The trunk can become about 4 metres (13 feet) wide in diameter (in open areas much larger near temples 50 m with girth 10 m grow!) and is straight columnar and sparingly branched. "About 10% of the Ginkgos in the Tianmu Shan Reserve is estimated to be over 1000 years of age."Ī Ginkgo tree can reach about 30 sometimes 40 metres (100 feet) height and a spread of 9 metres. In China the oldest Ginkgo is about 3,500 years old!" "The Ginkgo can have a long life span, 1,000 or older. ![]() And I'm sure in the past there had to be at least a few over 3000 years old. It is not out of the question at all that there are some Ginkgos a least almost to 3000 years old. The largest grove of old ginkgos is in the Tian Mu Shan (Heaven's Eyes Mountain) Nature Reserve in Jiangsu Province." ![]() Surveys done in China have revealed that there are some ginkgo trees that are as much as 3,000 years old, with a total of about 180 trees exceeding 500 years of age. "Individual ginkgo trees also compete for the title of oldest living specimens of life on earth. A combination of resistance to dust, wind, ice, snow damage, fungal, disease such as viral and bacterial diseases as well as to ozone, smoke, and sulfer dioxide pollution, fire and even radioactive radiation, in many sites they are deep rooted, and insect-resistant wood and the ability to form aerial roots and sprouts makes ginkgos very long-lived, with some specimens claimed to be more than 2,500 years old: A 3,000 year-old ginkgo has been reported in Shandong province in China.
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