Timeline for Can a male Ginkgo Biloba tree bear one fruit?
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| Oct 23 at 15:47 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @Wastrel - A sport is new, something not before seen, caused by a genetic mutation and is often is able to be passed on to offspring or through grafting. What this part of the tree has experienced is sex conversion, which (as this answer points out) has been documented in gingkos. If it developed, say, yellow and green stripes on the same leaves at the same time which persisted with propagation, that would be a sport. (If it doesn't already exist; that I don't know.) | |
| Oct 23 at 15:36 | comment | added | Wastrel | I think that generally, this is called "sporting" and the unusual feature is a sport: "A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth...." | |
| Oct 23 at 12:27 | history | edited | Jiminy Cricket. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Slight addition.
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| Oct 23 at 10:51 | comment | added | Andrew T. | Looks like Ohatsuki Icho (オハツキイチョウ) refers to the species variant of Ginkgo biloba var. epiphylla Makino and it's from お葉付き, which roughly means "(pollen) sticks to leaves" (the quotation already explains the meaning). | |
| Oct 23 at 5:48 | comment | added | Jiminy Cricket. | If anyone has a better translation of Ohatsuki Icho, then please feel free to edit the answer. | |
| Oct 22 at 22:57 | comment | added | Jiminy Cricket. | Absolutely. Sex-change in some fish was familiar to me, but trees, a whole new area I'd not been aware of. I notice that the linked paper is only about 8 years old - there may be more research into this in the future. @Alfred | |
| Oct 22 at 22:49 | comment | added | Alfred | Thanks. So I was right, just as the tree you mentioned in Japan, the one here in Paris must have somewhere a small part that bore at least one ovule. The fruit was really impossible to confuse from anything else. | |
| Oct 22 at 22:46 | vote | accept | Alfred | ||
| Oct 22 at 22:44 | history | answered | Jiminy Cricket. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |