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Reader Michael Glasgow kindly sent in these photos of two female ginkgo trees on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. (You can see by their color that it was longer ago than it should have been, but I won’t detail the computer troubles that led to this late posting.)
Michael says that the one on the left is 12 feet 8 inches in circumference, and the other is 13 feet 4 inches in circumference. I find it remarkable that these female ginkgo trees have been allowed to live long enough to reach this size, but I also know that some campuses have strategies for dealing with the fall fruit (in my area, part of the strategy involves a gaggle of Korean women).
If you’d like to see these trees, Michael gives directions:
They are straight up the sidewalk from the sample gates. They’ll be on your left near the top on the hill. The sample gates are on Indiana Avenue across from Starbucks.
