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January - June
2012 (new on top)
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New topic: read / download
book on Ginkgo biloba.
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Added on my
FAQ-page several Ginkgo nurseries in
the Netherlands and Belgium.
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New photo + video photospecial page: Ginkgo biloba trees in Amsterdam.
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Added Feedburner
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get updates of forum-blog and website via email.
July - December
2011 (new on top)
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Added pdf to search-sitemap and FAQ
page.
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New photo + video photospecial page: Ginkgo biloba tree in fall.
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Added photos of Ginkgo seedlings on Propagation-page.
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Added several photos/videos on Tree-
and Usage-pages.
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Added several of my HD-videos on non-English Tree-pages of my website.
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Added HD-video of Ginkgo in fall in Amsterdam: my YouTube
channel and Tree-page.
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New photo + video photospecial page: Seeds on female Ginkgo biloba
tree.
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Added to my
Art-page (stamps): Ginkgo stamps
South Korea and Singapore.
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Added new topic: Cycad is not a living
fossil.
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Added HD-video of Ginkgo seeds on female tree: my YouTube
channel and Propagation-page .
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New photo photospecial page: Large Ginkgo tree in Ravenna, Italy.
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Added new topic:
Film on Ginkgo biloba: 'The sea in the seed'.
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Update April 2011 topic "Hachiman Ginkgo broke
after 1000 years".
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Update on Name-page: revised version research by
Prof. Wolfgang Michel on spelling of Ginkgo.
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New photo photospecial page: Ginkgo trees in Ravenna area, Italy.
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Added new video on my
YouTube channel of an old Ginkgo biloba in Ravenna, Italy.
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Added photos of Ginkgo trees in Kaliningrad
(Koenigsberg) in the Russian Federation and Austin,
Texas, USA.
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Added to my
Art-page (stamps): United Nations
- New York stamp: Hand planting of Ginkgo.
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New photo photospecial page: Ginkgo leaves in Rome's Orto Botanico,
Italy.
January - June
2011 (new on top)
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New photo photospecial page: Germinated Ginkgo seeds + video.
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New picture on Fossils-page: Shunosaurus
under a Ginkgo yimaensis, Middle Jurassic of China.
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Added new video on my
YouTube channel and on my Propagation-page:
germinated Ginkgo seeds.
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New photo photospecial page: Ginkgo tree in Fukushima, Japan.
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Added Youku video on my Bonsai-page of a Ginkgo
bonsai nursery in China.
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New photo photospecial page: Ovules on female Ginkgo tree in spring.
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Added to my
Art-page (stamps): Ginkgo stamp
Japan (Aichi-ken).
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Added new video on my
YouTube channel of Ginkgo biloba 'pendula' in Jardin Godron, Nancy
- France. More 'pendula' trees on this special
page.
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Added new topic: Ginkgo afforestation project
in Argentina.
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Update picture gallery Fossils-page: Ginkgoites
watsoniae sp. nov., Arizona.
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New photo photospecial page: Ginkgo tree and statue of nymph on dolphin,
Jardin des Plantes, Paris.
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Added to my
Art-page (picture gallery): Ginkgo
sculptures by Rudi Jass.
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Added new topic: Ginkgo world game.
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Added to my
Art-page (picture gallery): Ginkgo
leaf square in Tokyo, design by Karin Daan.
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don't mention minor updates here. Not all changes are updated on the German/French/Dutch
summaries.
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"Ginkgo" game. Change the world with every bounce.
You play as Ginkgo,
a furry creature with bouncing abilities. Ginkgo's world has been infected
by a pollen & caused all plants and creatures to decay. Ginkgo now
has to use its bouncing abilities to revive its world.
"Acoulia, the legendary
land of the east is a beautiful forest full of life where the seasons are
controlled by the Tree of Seasons. A little Ginkgo growing on the Ginkgo
Tree is almost ripe and has been watching the land, unable to wait to enter
and live in the beautiful forest of Acoulia. Ginkgo is woken up by a melancholy
tune. This tune comes from a gigantic flying Ocarina creature that has
a dark pollen forest on its back. The Ocarina creature then flies into
a rain cloud and the pollen from its back turns the rain black. All of
Acoulia then gets infected because of this rain. Forests decay, animals
become hostile and begin to attack each other.
Ginkgo witnesses
all of this while the Ginkgo tree begins to decay. Ginkgo then wiggles
out from the fruit and is the only survivor from the Ginkgo Tree. Ginkgo
enters the infected world and finds a way to restore the world using its
bouncing ability."
Download Ginkgo game here.
Pdf with more info here.
Ginkgo is a student project from the Vancouver Film School. It was made from concept to product by a five member team, along with five collaborators in a span of five months.
Trailer:
 Kamakura,
Japan:
the famous Hachiman Ginkgo tree (1,000 years old, 35 m, girth 6 m) broke probably due to bad weather, more research is needed. It is a great loss for Kamakura and Japan. Shigeho Yoshida, the chief priest of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, is too shocked to comment on the matter, a shrine official said. Other priests, who are also in shock, made spiritual gestures by offering rice and sake to the collapsed tree. The giant ginkgo tree, well known as a symbol of the shrine, was dubbed "Kakure Icho" (hidden ginkgo) since monk Kugyo hid behind the tree when he assassinated Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate, in January 1219. Videos and more info on my blog. |
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are plans to restore this tree. Tokyo University of Agriculture professor
Chikayasu Hamano said: " "Although it's not for certain, new roots may
grow from the trunk if we plant it again." It is also hoped that young
trees may grow from the roots still remaining in the ground. The trunk
will be cut off about four meters above the fracture and planted near the
root remaining in the ground after removing extra branches. The shrine
has already started preparing for the project.
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 The
trunk was cut off about 3.6 meters above the fracture and planted by the
stone steps leading to the shrine's main hall, about 7 meters west of the
roots remaining in the ground.
The stone steps are temporarily not available for use, but the replanted ginkgo tree will be unveiled to the public in the near future. Read more here. |
Update
March 18, 2010:
In a ceremony broadcasted on national television a Shinto priest prayed together with some 1,200 people for the revival of the tree. People lined up to register their hope for a new life for the tree in a memorial book. Reporters watched the ceremony, teams on the ground and by helicopter from the air.  |
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Update
April 2, 2010:
 New
buds are sprouting from the base of the old large Ginkgo!
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Update
April 2011:
 photo:
Papaya
my blog. |
Film on Ginkgo biloba 'The seed in the sea'
Very
interesting research film 'The sea in the seed, sperm of Ginkgo biloba
and reproductive evolution in plants' produced by Okada Kazuo; the
best scientific film award at Ronda, Spain and TEPIA Grand Prix in Tokyo
(2000) - TokyoCinema Inc.
To
watch the English version click here.
Text click here.
More
info on my website.
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