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Volunteer baby Ginkgo

Could this be an escape?

Seedling.

I’ve seen plenty of Ginkgo seedlings over the years but don’t think I’ve seen any that developed into saplings or young trees. (I’m not suggesting this is bad, just interesting.)

First “wild” ginkgo tree I’ve come across. There are a lot of ginkgo street trees around, but this one was definitely not planted.

Ginkgo ground cover - thousands of small saplings

3-4 foot sapling growing on a rock ledge in the North Woods—seems quite unlikely to have been “planted” in any traditional sense.

Seedlings

Saplings under parent tree.

Hundreds of ginkgo saplings.

Growing out of base of European Beech.

Seedlings from cultivated tree

Planted tree + self-established seedlings some 8m downslope; fallen leaves of same tree photographed in June 2020.

Shrub

SEEDLING!

Seedling that grew spontaneously from last year's fruit.

Seedling that grew spontaneously from last year's fruit.

Covered with Dodders. A likely or unlikely pair??

Mount Rogers, Virginia