Species profile
Ginkgo
ginkgo biloba
16,334 on Toronto's streets — 2.37% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🍁 Fall colour Oct 25 – Nov 10: bright gold, famous overnight synchronous drop
Toronto history — Living fossil from eastern China, sole survivor of a 270-million-year-old lineage. Toronto has 17,000+ on the streets, 88% of them less than 15 years old — a city-wide commitment to a tree with essentially no modern pests. Only male clones, to avoid the fruit.
Ginkgo biloba, commonly known as ginkgo, also known as the maidenhair tree, and often misspelled "gingko" is a species of gymnosperm tree native to East Asia. It is the last living species in the order Ginkgoales, which first appeared over 290 million years ago. Fossils similar to the living species, belonging to the genus Ginkgo, extend back to the Middle Jurassic epoch about 170 million years ag
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Introduced (Asia) |
| Mature size | Large, 15m high by 10m wide |
| Growth rate | Slow |
| Sensitivity | Hardy |
| Best site | Lawns and boulevards |
| Plants under overhead wires | Yes |
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| West Humber-Clairville | 734 |
| York University Heights | 428 |
| High Park-Swansea | 328 |
| Humber Summit | 291 |
| Stonegate-Queensway | 263 |
| Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown | 261 |
| Banbury-Don Mills | 252 |
| Agincourt North | 230 |
Notable specimens
- 123 cm DBH at 469 MELROSE AVE · view →
- 111 cm DBH at 31 GRANLEA RD · view →
- 102 cm DBH at 23 STRATHEARN BLVD · view →
- 101 cm DBH at 31 BROOKE AVE · view →
- 100 cm DBH at 252 BESSBOROUGH DR · view →
- 100 cm DBH at 382 LAKE PROMENADE · view →
- 95 cm DBH at 85 THIRTY SEVENTH ST · view →
- 90 cm DBH at 169 TEDDINGTON PARK AVE · view →