Welcome, listeners, to the Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page), a tree book podcast and shop. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast.Today's review is of Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot by Peter Crane. This is a meaty book from a highly respected botanist and plant historian, Peter Crane. A Brit, he is most known for his former role as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and then later as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. You’ll find definitive discussions from everything you may have wondered about regarding ginkgo trees. After its early history, you’ll find chapters on the unique biology of ginkgo, its initial world-wide range, why it declined to near extinction, its persistence and rediscovery, the cultural associations in China, Japan, and Korea, and its resurgence. If you like what you heard, you can purchase Ginkgo by Peter Crane on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores. Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on Youtube.

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