Ginkgo : the tree that time forgot /

Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand y...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Crane, Peter R.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Sujets:
Ginkgo.
Phytotherapy > history
Plants, Medicinal > history
ginkgo biloba.
ornamental woody plants.
agronomic characters.
biological properties.
history.
NATURE > Plants > General.
NATURE > Plants > Trees.
Ginkgo
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prologue. Time ; Trees ; Identity
  • The living tree. Energy ; Growth ; Stature ; Sex ; Gender ; Seeding ; Resilience
  • Origin and prehistory. Origins ; Ancestry ; Relationships ; Recognition ; Proliferation ; Winnowing ; Persistence ; Prosperity
  • Decline and survival. Constraint ; Retreat ; Extinction ; Endurance ; Relic
  • History. Antiquity ; Reprieve ; Voyages ; Renewal ; Naming ; Resurgence
  • Use. Gardens ; Nuts ; Streets ; Pharmacy
  • Future. Risk ; Insurance ; Gift ; Legacy
  • Appendix. List of common plant names used in the text and Latin equivalents.

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