The tree specimen, which is a botanical jewel in the city's green system, grows in the Art Garden. It is an unusual representative of a plant genus that biologically belongs to neither coniferous nor deciduous trees, but is considered to be evidence of their evolutionary interconnection. It has an ancient pedigree, having been most widespread in the geological evolution of the Earth in the Mesozoic Era. Most fossils of ginkgo have been found in China, which is why Southeast Asia is considered to be its original homeland. It has been preserved thanks to Chinese monks who cultivated it as a rarity in monastery gardens. It was imported from Japan to Europe in the 1730s and cultivated in the collections of botanical gardens. A representative of this rare species entered the moat in Prešov in the interwar period of the 20th century and to this day its symmetrical crown with a continuous trunk, forked at the top, dominates the central space of the Art Garden. Typical is the shape of its leaves, which have a fan-shaped leaf blade of joined needles divided into two lobes. Their colour is light green and in autumn they turn a luminous golden yellow. There is no other representative of this genus of this age in the territory of the town of Prešov.
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