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Wonder tree ENDANGERED
Scientists consider me a living The maidenhair fern grows well in the litter under trees.
bridge between higher plants like
the flowering plants and conifers
and lower plants like mosses and
ferns. I have many medicinal
qualities. In Chinese medicine,
my seeds are used to treat
ailments such as asthma and
fever. Western medicine uses
extract of my leaves to treat
many ailments, including
Alzheimer’s disease.
Biloba no more
Some say that wild members of my
family still live in south-western China.
We are a family of very strong, tough
trees, but today, most of our wild
populations are gone because humans
wanted our wood and leaves or because iGWnitnrhokigldeouibctsieldorbetaloasttuihvreevsrivebseetdcoaifmnthCeehexwintioanr,clfdtroianmsoawtnhheoerrrnpeaaimrttwsenoatfsatalhgpealawinnotr. ld,
they took over our home.
Did you know? In memory of Biloba
The International Union
Ginkgo biloba is a ‘living fossil’ for Conservation of Nature
because it is the only living member considers my family
of the group Ginkoales, which has endangered. Even though most CR
been living on this planet of my family members now live
from the time before the in farms and gardens grown ENDANGER ED
dinosaurs, 270 million by humans, we are still felled
extensively to meet the demand EN
years ago. of the medicine market. If we
are not replanted at the same
rate as we are cut, the hundreds VU
of millions of years of our life
on this planet might end in
the near future.
Scientists consider me a living The maidenhair fern grows well in the litter under trees.
bridge between higher plants like
the flowering plants and conifers
and lower plants like mosses and
ferns. I have many medicinal
qualities. In Chinese medicine,
my seeds are used to treat
ailments such as asthma and
fever. Western medicine uses
extract of my leaves to treat
many ailments, including
Alzheimer’s disease.
Biloba no more
Some say that wild members of my
family still live in south-western China.
We are a family of very strong, tough
trees, but today, most of our wild
populations are gone because humans
wanted our wood and leaves or because iGWnitnrhokigldeouibctsieldorbetaloasttuihvreevsrivebseetdcoaifmnthCeehexwintioanr,clfdtroianmsoawtnhheoerrrnpeaaimrttwsenoatfsatalhgpealawinnotr. ld,
they took over our home.
Did you know? In memory of Biloba
The International Union
Ginkgo biloba is a ‘living fossil’ for Conservation of Nature
because it is the only living member considers my family
of the group Ginkoales, which has endangered. Even though most CR
been living on this planet of my family members now live
from the time before the in farms and gardens grown ENDANGER ED
dinosaurs, 270 million by humans, we are still felled
extensively to meet the demand EN
years ago. of the medicine market. If we
are not replanted at the same
rate as we are cut, the hundreds VU
of millions of years of our life
on this planet might end in
the near future.
