ginkgo biloba female


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Kinda fibrous but not that interesting type of wood. I have a male tree in my front yard . Botany prof in college warned us that the fruit from the female tree smells like the worst locker room X 10, very funky smell.And they are little fruit that rot and get slippery so hard to clean up as well.  So I don't blame you for cutting it down but good luck selling the log.

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There are a lot of ginkgoes in Philly.  It's a softwood, but the leaves and fruit don't look like a pine.  Like Steve said, it's the only tree of it's division, and "softwood" is defined as the conifers and the ginkgoes.

Around here it's called the vomit-berry tree, because when the fruit fall that's what they smell like.  It's pretty awful.  You don't want to live near a female ginkgo.

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