Plant: Autumn Gold
Ginkgo Tree · Ginkgo biloba 'Autumn Gold'
Size: 7 gal
Light
Mature size
More about this plant
A male ginkgo selection forming a broadly conical, symmetrical crown to about 50 feet tall and 30 feet wide. Its fan shaped emerald green leaves, 2 to 3 inches long and carried in clusters of three to five on short spur shoots, turn brilliant golden yellow in fall and drop almost all at once to leave a golden carpet under the tree. Grow it in full sun in any reasonably drained clay, loam or sand soil across a wide pH range. It tolerates heat, drought, salt, pollution and urban conditions, and works as a shade tree, a street tree or a lawn specimen. Being a male selection it does not set the foul smelling fruit of seedling females.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 50 ft tall and 30 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A male ginkgo selection forming a broadly conical, symmetrical crown to about 50 feet tall and 30 feet wide. Its fan shaped emerald green leaves, 2 to 3 inches long and carried in clusters of three to five on short spur shoots, turn brilliant golden yellow in fall and drop almost all at once to leave a golden carpet under the tree. Grow it in full sun in any reasonably drained clay, loam or sand soil across a wide pH range. It tolerates heat, drought, salt, pollution and urban conditions, and works as a shade tree, a street tree or a lawn specimen. Being a male selection it does not set the foul smelling fruit of seedling females.
- Foliage
- Leaves are 2 to 3 inches long, emerald green and fan shaped, borne alternately and in clusters of three to five on short spur shoots, turning gold yellow in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Grey brown bark in ridges; the tree produces both long shoots and short reproductive spur shoots.
- Native range
- South-central and southeast China
