Autumn leaves · Plate I

Ginkgo

Ginkgo biloba

Its fan-shaped leaf is like no other tree’s: the veins rise from the base and keep forking, with no central vein. Many have a notch in the edge that splits them in two, hence the name biloba.

It belongs to a very old lineage, known from its fossils, and comes from China, where it is now very rare in the wild. Its name comes from Japanese and means “silver apricot”; the spelling “ginkgo”, with its unexpected k, is usually explained as a transcription error.

In autumn it turns an even, intense golden yellow and drops almost all its leaves within a few days, like a golden carpet at the foot of the tree.

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