On Feb 9, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Don Williams wrote:
They look a little like the fruit of a very fine tree cultivated in Japan for centuries -- the Maiden Hair tree. If the fruit stinks like crap it might be from this tree -- Ginkgo biloba. Its a living fossil, only with us because it was so highly regarded by the Japanese. Normally one only finds male trees in gardens the females are kept far away (in nurseries) where they won't make passers by sick to their stomachs.
They're all over Washington, DC, where I used to live. I didn't think the fruits were edible.
Bob
