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Osan Air Base in South Korea, an American military installation, is the site of a ginkgo tree estimated to be more than seven hundred years old. A plaque near the tree reads:
Planted about 1280 A.D. by a rich man who had no descendants. He then had children, and annually celebrated a religious service to the tree in appreciation. Villagers called this “enheng-jengui,” or “jinko[sic]-tree mania.” Enheng Jengui is the name of the village today, and this part of the village became part of Osan Air Base in 1950.
The tree is located on the golf course of the air base.
Photo found here.