Ginkgo
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Ginkgo is a genus of non-flowering seed plants, assigned to the gymnosperms. The scientific name is also used as the English common name. The order to which the genus belongs, Ginkgoales, first appear
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Fossil Ginkgo huttonii leaves from the Jurassic of England
Detail of moulded-brick relief "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi", from a tomb near Nanjing, c. 400 AD
Ofuji, 'Miss Ginkgo', woodblock print by Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1793–94
Cycad
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Cycads —constituting the division Cycadophyta—are seed plants with a stout, woody cylindrical trunk with a crown of large, hard, stiff, evergreen and usually pinnate leaves. The species are dioecious,
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…the last common ancestor of today's only remaining species lived not earlier than 390,000 years ago. The closest living relatives of the clade are the cycads. The time of this divergence is estimated to be extremely ancient, dating to the early Carboniferous. Fossils attributable to the genus Ginkgo with…
Cycas circinalis
Growth habit
Rosette of pinnate leaves around a cylindrical trunk
Leaves and strobilus of Encephalartos sclavoi