Plant Trivia : Familiar plant called living fossil

Familiar plant called living fossil?



Coelacanth is famous as a living fossil, but there is a living fossil very close to us.

It is Ginkgo.

 
Ginkgo is a plant that has survived from 250 million years ago without changing its appearance.
                                                              
       

While there are various species in ordinary wood and grass, there is only one species of ginkgo.