Taxon: Ginkgo biloba L.

Common names:

• ginkgo   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• maidenhair-tree   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• yin xing   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• 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
  
• ichō   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• eunhaengnamu   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:101.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• nogueira-do-Japão   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• ginkgo   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Human food: seeds   (fide L Edible Pl; Edible HC)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

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

• widely cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Del Tredici, P. 2007. The phenology of sexual reproduction in Ginkgo biloba: ecological and evolutionary implications. Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 73:267–278.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Gong, W. et al. 2008. Phylogeography of a living fossil: Pleistocene glaciations forced Ginkgo biloba L. (Ginkgoaceae) into two refuge areas in China with limited subsequent postglacial expansion. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 48:1094–1105.
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:101.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Tang, C. Q. et al. 2012. Evidence for the persistence of wild Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgoaceae) populations in the Dalou Mountains, southwestern China. Amer. J. Bot. 99:1408–1414.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ginkgo biloba.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ginkgo biloba.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ginkgo biloba.

Synonyms:

• (=) Ginkgo biloba f. pendula (Van Geert) Beissn.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ginkgo biloba f. variegata (Carrière) Beissn.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Ginkgo biloba L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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 (on-line resource). 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo image: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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