Id Please

Can any one Id this tree please and i would like to know if you can take cutting

 

Looks like a Ginkgo Biloba Jiffy :D

 

Yep Ginkgo biloba it is

 

I've not heard of this, and just popped it into google. Interestingly Wiki specifies that this is classed as a 'living fossil.' Anyone know where this comes from?

 

The science of it goes a little over my head tbh

 

It's also known as the Maidenhair Tree and is a unique species of tree with no close living relatives.

It's called a 'living fossil' because fossil examples of its leaves have been found dating back some 270 million years when the good old 'dino's' were stomping around :D and it's barely changed in all that time. The only 'wild' trees left are somewhere in China..

 

Thank you that's the bit I was after.

Amazing really!! Can't say I've ever seen of these in the flesh though.