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To: sandintoes who wrote (31027)	3/23/2005 12:18:13 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

maybe next year you'll plant one? they are a prehistoric plant, over two hundred million years old ~ Once common in North America and Europe, the ginkgos were wiped out during the ice age and disappeared from North America seven million years ago and from Europe three million years ago. Ginkgos were thought to be extinct until 1691 when a German physician and botanist, Engelbert Kaempfer, found gingkos growing in Japan. Kaempfer may have found the “lost” tree, but it was Buddhist monks who most likely saved this living fossil from extinction. From about 1100 AD, Buddhist monks in the mountains of south-east China cultivated gingko trees in the courtyards of their monasteries. The gingko trees were valued for their medicinal uses, edible seeds, and perhaps their beauty. In about 800 AD, the monks brought the gingko with them to Japan where many years later Kaempfer found it.