Ancient ginkgo in the world

The hometown of Ancient Ginkgo in the world refers to Tule ancient ginkgo village, Shiqiao Town, Pan County, Guizhou Province, China. Tule ancient ginkgo village is located in Tule village, Shiqiao Town, Pan County, Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province, which is known as the Liangdu of China. It is a famous scenic spot in Guizhou Province, with flowing water, continuous ancient trees, small bridges reflecting rainbow and Qifeng beside temple. There are more than 1450 ancient silver apricot trees growing in the whole village. They are generally more than 300 years old, and the longest one is more than 1200 years old. They are tall, with a diameter at breast height of 100-200 cm, a maximum of 220 cm, and a crown height of 15-30 meters. They are the places with the largest growth density and the best preservation of Ancient Ginkgo in the world, enjoying the reputation of "the hometown of Ancient Ginkgo in the world". Tule ancient ginkgo scenic spot is located in the center of Panxian ancient ginkgo scenic spot. There are 1450 ancient ginkgo left in Quaternary glacial period in the main scenic spot, which is the most concentrated place of Ancient Ginkgo in the world [1]. It has formed a very rare extensive and profound tree culture of "human tree dependence" in the world, known as the "living fossil base of the world".

Home of Gingko

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The ancient town of Ginkgo in the world generally refers to the town of ginkgo

Ginkgo village, a commendatory term, refers to the place rich in Ginkgo since ancient times.

There are six most famous "gingko towns" in China: Pizhou City, Jiangsu Province, Taixing City, Jiangsu Province, and Anlu City, Hubei Province

Tancheng County, Shandong Province

Nanxiong City, Guangdong Province, Changxing County, Zhejiang Province.

Ginkgo biloba

Ginkgo biloba is the general name of Ginkgo genus in ginkgo family. There is only one genus and one species in this genus. It is a famous "living fossil". Ginkgo biloba was widely distributed in the northern hemisphere in the Mesozoic Jurassic, and began to decline in the late Cretaceous. After the advent of Quaternary glaciers, they became extinct in most parts of Europe, North America and Asia. The wild Ginkgo biloba is a special product of China. It is listed as the second-class national protection and widely cultivated. There are magnificent ancient trees in many places.

Ginkgo biloba is a deciduous tree with tall trunk and luxuriant branches. The leaves are fan-shaped, long petiolate, with many forked parallel veinlets, scattered in spiral arrangement on long branches and clustered on short branches. The corms are unisexual, dioecious, and grow in clusters in the axils of scalelike leaves at the top of short branches; the male corms are pedunculate, catkin like, with many stamens, spirally inserted, sparsely arranged, with short stalks, anthers 2, locules longitudinally split, and connectives underdeveloped; the female corms are long stalked, and the stalk ends are often bifurcated, rarely bifurcated or divided into 3-5 forks, and each has an erect ovule. The seeds are drupe like, long stemmed, pendulous, with fleshy exotesta, bony mesotesta, membranous endotesta, and rich endosperm; the cotyledons are usually 2, not unearthed when germinating. It is a special product of our country and is widely cultivated. The wood is excellent, used for carving, plate, construction, etc.; the seed kernel is edible, used for moistening the lung and relieving cough, and the leaves are used for medicine.

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Ginkgo fruit is commonly known as ginkgo, so ginkgo is also known as white fruit tree. Ginkgo biloba grows slowly and has a very long life span. Under natural conditions, it takes more than 20 years from planting to fruiting, and only after 40 years can it bear a large number of fruits. Therefore, some people call it "Gongsun tree", which has the meaning of "public planting and grandchildren getting food". It is the old birthday star in the tree and has ornamental, economic and medicinal value. It is cultivated from Shenyang in the north to Guangzhou in the south. It is light loving, cold resistant, adaptable, drought resistant, not waterlogged, and resistant to air pollution; it has deep root, slow growth, and can live for more than 1000 years. The trunk is straight, the crown is majestic and magnificent, and the autumn leaves are bright yellow. It is quite beautiful. It is suitable for shade trees, street trees and scenic trees. The seeds are used for food and medicine, and the material is excellent. There are wild trees in Tianmu Mountain of Zhejiang Province, which are widely cultivated in other places.

List of gingko's hometown

A brief introduction to the hometown of Gingko

Taixing, Jiangsu

Taixing is known as the "hometown of Ginkgo biloba". Ancient Ginkgo biloba, the number of Ginkgo biloba planted, the yield and quality of Ginkgo biloba all rank the first in China, enjoying the reputation of "the first city of Ginkgo biloba" in China. Taixing ginkgo production accounts for about one third of the country. In June 1995, Tian Jiyun, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, happily inscribed "the first city of Ginkgo biloba" for Taixing City; in the spring of 1996, the market economy Research Institute of the development research center of the State Council awarded Taixing the title of "the hometown of Ginkgo biloba in China" in the national "the most in China".

Related mythological characters: Gingko Fairy

Related legend: Gingko fairy dispels pestilence, gingko fairy fights with rich man

Special festival: China (Taixing) ginkgo Festival

Special products: Taixing "Big Buddha finger" gingko, gingko essence, gingko wine

Related attractions: Jiangsu ancient ginkgo community scenic spot (Xuanbao ancient ginkgo forest park)

Pizhou, Jiangsu Province

Pizhou is one of the five ginkgo bases in China. At present, there are 210000 mu of Ginkgo orchards, with an annual output of 900 tons of ginkgo fruit, accounting for one tenth of the national output, and 12000 tons of Ginkgo leaves, accounting for about 60% of the national output. Ginkgo ketone production capacity of 250 tons, accounting for 80% of the country's total.

The Ancient Ginkgo biloba in Baima Temple of Sihu town was planted in Zhengguang period of Northern Wei Dynasty, and it has been more than 1500 years old.

The 100000 Mu contiguous ginkgo garden was rated as "national ecological demonstration garden", and the ginkgo leaf production base was the first to pass the national GAP certification in China. Ginkgo planting in Pizhou is mainly distributed in Tiefu and Gangshang towns, with a planting area of 200000 mu, which also helps Pizhou become the county with the largest planting area of Ginkgo in China.

In December 2010, the State Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine of the people's Republic of China (AQSIQ) decided to implement the national geographic indication product protection for "Pizhou ginkgo".

Tancheng, Shandong

Tancheng County of Shandong Province is known as "the first county of Ginkgo in the world". Ginkgo ancient plum garden is the first farmer Park in the province. It is located in Xincun Township, with Yihe River in the west, Maling mountain in the East and Hongshiya in the back. There are many landscapes in the garden, including the old God tree gingko king. The tree is 47 meters high, 2.3 meters diameter at breast height and 7.1 meters girth. The shade covers an area of about 0.85 mu. It can pollinate the female trees within tens of kilometers when it blooms in spring. Most of the surface roots of Ginkgo biloba trees are exposed to the soil layer, but they germinate earlier and leave leaves later than other Ginkgo biloba trees, and grow vigorously. Local people call them "Old God trees".

According to historical records, the tree has a history of more than 2500 years. The "Old God tree" has luxuriant branches and leaves, towering in the sky and huge shadows, ranking first among the male ginkgo trees in China. The tree was listed as a key cultural relic under county protection in 1979.

Laowanmu ginkgo garden is located on the Bank of Yihe River on the west side of Ginkgo ancient plum garden. There are more than 5000 ginkgo trees with more than 100 years old and more than 18000 trees with more than 50 years old in this ancient ginkgo forest, which is unique in China.

Changxing, Zhejiang

Songdian ginkgo base is one of the five largest ginkgo bases in China. It has been praised by the Ministry of forestry and the State Science and Technology Commission as "the first Ginkgo Garden", "high quality and high yield ginkgo demonstration base", "National Science and technology development center ginkgo experimental base" and other titles.

Nanxiong, Guangdong

Nanxiong, located in the northeast of Guangdong Province, is known as the "hometown of Ginkgo". Nanxiong has more than 100000 Mu ginkgo forest, mainly distributed in pingtian, Youshan, maomaofeng, Zhutian and other towns. Pingtian and Youshan ginkgo trees are mostly old trees. They are famous for their clusters of ancient ginkgo trees. There are more than 1000 ginkgo trees over 100 years old.

Anlu, Hubei

Anlu City in Hubei Province is located in the beautiful and rich northeast of Hubei Province, known as the "Chinese ginkgo city". Anlu City is backed by the Dahong mountains, facing the Jianghan Plain, and the Yunshui river passes through. The good geographical environment has created a rare millennium old ginkgo community. The distribution of Ginkgo biloba is relatively concentrated. Within a radius of 56 kilometers, there are 29000 ginkgo trees. There are 59 Ancient Ginkgo biloba trees more than 1000 years old, 1468 Ancient Ginkgo biloba trees more than 500 years old and 4683 Ancient Ginkgo biloba trees more than 100 years old. There are 36.72 million ginkgo trees in the city, 61 per capita, and the per capita reserves rank the first in the country. It is known as "Chinese ginkgo city" and "national ginkgo nature reserve".

On December 31, 2008, Hubei Provincial Forestry Bureau approved the establishment of "Qianchong ancient ginkgo forest park in Anlu, Hubei Province"; in July 2009, the State Forestry Bureau approved the establishment of "Qianchong ancient ginkgo National Forest Park in Anlu, Hubei Province". This is the first forest park named after a tree species in China and the first national forest park named after a tree species in the world. Ancient ginkgo National Forest Park is composed of Qianchong ancient ginkgo Provincial Forest Park (Qianchong scenic area) and baizhaoshan Forest Park (baizhaoshan scenic area) in Hubei Province, with a total planning area of 2413 hectares, including 1800 hectares of Qianchong scenic area and 613 hectares of baizhaoshan scenic area.

Address: Tuole ancient ginkgo village, Shiqiao Town, Pan County, Guizhou Province

Longitude: 104.55048841105

Latitude: 25.611512894289

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