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Survived the atomic bomb in 1945 and is still living, despite being about 1 km from the explosion. This is a copy of Ginkgo Bilova, a tree native to China that can live for 1000 years. The reason it has survived is an excellent biology and chemistry class:

Among the effects caused by a nuclear explosion is a strong ionizing radiation, which produces an oxidation in living tissue through radiation. Ginkgo Biloba is a living fossil, a tree that was made ​​and hundreds of millions of years when the Earth's atmosphere was richer in oxygen, and developed defense systems against oxidation that saved him from the atomic explosion.

Today it is known as the bringer of hope and his feet is an inscription which reads: No more Hiroshima. There are 3 other trees further away from the blast that also survived and still remain a symbol of life beyond war.

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Ginkgo biloba Etymology The original name of this tree in Chinese was "silver apricot" ( y; and xìng ín). The writing of this word was introduced into Japanese in the seventeenth century, but with a different pronunciation: Ginkyo. This was the name that met the first Westerner to see the species, the German scientist, Engelbert Kaempfer in 1690. Although the Japanese kanji characters remain the same, his name is pronounced today as icho or Ginn. In modern Chinese, the name is (b i guǒ), meaning "white fruit."

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Ginkgo street Gaien Jingu, Tokyo

Ginkgo seeds biloba.El ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), known also as forty coats tree, a tree is unique in the world, no living relatives. It is classified in its own division, the Ginkgophyta, being the only member of the class, Ginkgoopsida, order Ginkgoales, Ginkgoaceae family, genus Ginkgo. Contains a single species, Ginkgo biloba is one of the best examples of relic or living fossil known.

Originally from China. You can expect to live to 1,000 years. It has been used for ornamental purposes for millennia. Can flourish in different climates in the world, however, grows mainly in southern and eastern United States, southern France, China and Korea. For centuries it has been used for its therapeutic actions, especially in traditional medicine in China, and tree leaves are used in modern herbalism.

 

The name of the tree of the 40 shields is due to the price paid by an amateur horticulturist Parisian English for the purchase of 5 ginkgos the price of 40 crowns each.

 Features medium sized deciduous tree can reach 35 m tall, with narrow crown, somewhat pyramidal, consisting of one or more trunks. Its branches, usually straight and steep, thick and rigid and in the young, although they often branching lax, and even poor. The bark is grayish brown or dark brown, with ridges and grooves well marked. It's a very long-lived species, some specimens have been found more than 2,500 years.

The leaves are light green and of 5-15 cm, are flat and fan shaped with dichotomous venation, those born in the long shoots usually have notches or lobes.

This tree is a gymnosperm, which means that its seeds have no protective shell. The sexes are separated, presenting the masculine yellow inflorescences grouped in catkins cylindrical, very numerous and are born on short shoots. In the female flowers are in groups of 2 or 3, producing a kind of drupa soft yellowish-brown and meaty texture, becoming gray-green when mature. To open and give off a musty odor containing butyric acid.

 Paleontology modern Ginkgo is a living fossil, with fossils clearly related to it dating from the Permian, 270 million years ago. Spread and diversified throughout Laurasia during the middle Jurassic and Cretaceous to begin to dwindle thereafter. By the Paleocene, Ginkgo adiantoides was the only species that remained and at the end of the Pleistocene, Ginkgo fossils disappeared from all records except for a small area of ​​central China where the modern species survived.

Ginkgophyta fossils have been classified into the following families and genera:

Ginkgoaceae

Arctobaiera

Baiera

Eretmophyllum

Ginkgo

Ginkgoites

Sphenobaiera

Windwardia

Trichopityaceae

Trichopitys

 

Ginkgo in penjing (Chinese bonsai), Ginkgo MontrealEl Botanical Garden is used to classify plants with more than four veins per segment, while the Baiera is used for those with less than two. The Sphenobaiera is generally used to classify plants with wedge-shaped leaves that lack petioles Trichopitys apparent and can be identified by multi-forked leaves with cylindrical terminal divisions (not flat) threads and is one of the oldest fossils assigned to the Ginkgophyta class.

 Healing Properties Note: Wikipedia is not a doctor.

If you think you need help, please consult a health professional.

From the leaves of Ginkgo Biloba extract is obtained which has flavonoids (ginkgoloides and glycosides) that when taken increase central and peripheral circulation, and consequently is more efficient irrigation of tissue.

This benefits people in middle-aged and senile, because their bodies lose the ability to adequately irrigate the tissues (especially the brain and that causes memory loss, fatigue, confusion, depression and anxiety). Gingko consumption reduces these symptoms and also more efficient irrigation in the heart and limbs.

Other studies show that these flavonoids have "antiplatelet function", ie reduce the tendency of platelets to clump together, reducing the tendency to form clots in the veins and arteries and thus reducing the risk of thrombosis. By function aggregating these flavonoids help in recovering from strokes and heart attacks.

In addition, these flavonoids are also effective in neutralizing free radicals that are involved in the process of aging. In fact have an oxygenated function in the brain, which increase glucose utilization and production of adenosine triphosphate.

Nowadays some studies on the use of Ginkgo Biloba as an adjunct in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, senile dementia and Parkinson's.

Trivia After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was one of the few trees left standing near the epicenter, which is known as a bearer of hope.

Texts references on the medicinal use of Ginkgo:

Martin, Diana. (2001). Ginkgo Biloba. "Collection natural pharmacy." Madrid: Editorial Edaf. ISBN 84-414-0925-0 and ISBN 978-84-414-0925-5.

Pros Casas, Miguel. (2000). Health for body and mind with ginkgo biloba. "Collection The nature cure." Barcelona: Editorial Océano. ISBN 84-494-1667-1 and ISBN 978-84-494-1667-5.

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