Only female ginkgo trees bear fruit. Tang Han explains with infographics, sound comments and sympathetic objectivity – both botany and cultural change.
Ginkgo trees are separated by sex; only the female trees bear fruit. Once highly esteemed as natural sources of health, city dwellers today object to their pungent smell and, as gardeners, prefer the less complicated, more fragrant “fruitless” male plants. Tang Han explains with infographics, apt short sound comments and sympathetic objectivity.