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Ginkgo yimaensis

Ginkgo yimaensis
Photo: Ginkgob, CC BY-SA 3.0

Ginkgo yimaensis is an extinct ginkgo species known only from Middle Jurassic fossils in China, closely related to the living Ginkgo biloba. It cannot be grown, so care fields describe the living relative only where noted.

Family
Ginkgoaceae (Ginkgo family)
Grows as
Tree

About

Ginkgo yimaensis is an extinct ginkgo species in the family Ginkgoaceae. It is a gymnosperm, first described by Zhou and Zhang.

Where it grows

Material of Ginkgo yimaensis has been found in the Yima Formation of Henan, China, dating back to the Middle Jurassic.

Other Ginkgo plants

Ginkgo adiantoides · Ginkgo apodes · Ginkgo · Ginkgo cranei · Gingko

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ginkgo yimaensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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