The world’s tallest Ginkgo Trees

December 27, 2011 by joachim

The world’s two tallest Ginkgo trees (except for the one that stands in Japan and is 150 feet tall) stand in Washington Heights, in the J. Hood Wright Park, at 173rd Street, and one is even taller than the other.  Now that the leaves have fallen, and those little green hands have  turned yellow on the ground, one can see that the branches are studded with fruit, tens of thousands of them lined up, and appearing black against the sky so they look like ribosomes studding the endoplasmic reticulum.  (Well that latter reference is just for people who know about the ribosome.)  These are female trees, bearing a fruit known from its awful smell.  Every day I see groups of Chinese people gathering the fruit in little sacks, so it must be a delicacy for some people.  Perhaps one has to cook them for hours, add a little of this and a little of that, especially vinegar and Soy sauce, before it tastes like anything.  Or they are  just the way they are supposed to be.

 

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One Response to The world’s tallest Ginkgo Trees

  1. david brickman says:
    February 14, 2012 at 5:08 pm

    I am very pleased to see you’re use of “ginkgo,” which I consider the most difficult word in the English language to spell correctly. “Gingko” is considered an acceptable alternate spelling, but that may simply be based on the fact that it is so commonly misspelled that way.

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