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Taxon: Ginkgo biloba L.

Genus: Ginkgo
Family: Ginkgoaceae.
Nomen number: 17540
Place of publication: Mant. pl. 2:313. 1771
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 17-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Oct-2001
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Common names:

  • ginkgo   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • maidenhair-tree   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • ginkgo biloba   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • noyer du Japon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Ginkgo   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  • Ginkgobaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • icho   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  • nogueira-do-Japão   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Zhejiang [n.w.]

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated

References:

  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. (Edible HC)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
  • Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. (L CultWPl SE US)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
  • Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts. (Edible Nuts)
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Check other databases for Ginkgo biloba L.:

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Ginkgo biloba cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?17540 (09 February 2010)

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