This tree is on the bank between the steps which lead up to the Chinese and Japanese section and the Edward Road fence.

The cultivar ‘Saratoga’ is a specific male cultivar known for its distinctive ‘fishtail’ shaped leaves. It was selected from a seedling at the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation,California US, in 1975.

Supplied by Pan-Global Plants, Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire.

Ginkgo biloba is ancient primitive tree occurring in many parts of the world 200 million years ago, and appearing as fossils in coal seams… regarded as a sacred tree in the East and commonly planted in vicinity of Buddhist temples. Long considered extinct in the wild, it is now known to have survived in the Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces of south east China.

Cultivated for centuries in China and introduced to England in 1754.