Ginkgo trees in Salt Lake Valley, Utah

Posted by Watcher in a blog post: "Today, the Ginkgo is separated by its nearest living relatives by roughly 300 million years or more- about as distantly-related to other trees time-wise as we are to turtles or birds. It’s alone in the world on a scale almost unimaginable, a tree out of time. To a tree-geek it’s almost like a tree from another world, or an alternate universe."
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