Looking to see the ginkgo trees? Try Buseok-sa or Sosu Sowon in Yeongju, or Hyeonchung-sa in Asan.
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Looking to see the ginkgo trees? Try Buseok-sa or Sosu Sowon in Yeongju, or Hyeonchung-sa in Asan.
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Yeah, those are pretty collections, but you left out the greatest gingko tree of them all — the 600-year-old one that towers over Yongmun-sa Temple at Yonmun-san — 170 feet tall and 54 feet around the trunk’s base — famous all over Korea.
off topic, but this might interest you robert:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/unu.....25210.html
Oh my! How could I forget the ginkgo tree of Yongmun-sa!
http://blog.naver.com/evergreen122/120044321018
That’s a big fucking ginkgo tree.
PS: I was just linking to a Chosun Ilbo series. I’m sure there are a ton of other great ginkgo spots, including Seonam-sa in Suncheon, which is apparently quite spectacular.
I know you were… THE ginko accepts your apology
Robert, I checked out your Yongmun-sa ginko tree link, says that tree is a “female tree” wow, that’s cool I didn’t know that trees had gender.
The Ginko is unique, called a “living fossil” because there are fossil ginko leaves over 270 million years old, and it survived only in parts of China. They say that ginko nuts are considered a health food. Anyone ever tried them? They sure have a strong smell, that’s for sure.
Robert, I checked out your Yongmun-sa ginko tree link, says that tree is a “female tree” wow, that’s cool I didn’t know that trees had gender.
The Ginko is unique, called a “living fossil” because there are fossil ginko leaves over 270 million years old, and it survived only in parts of China. They say that ginko nuts are considered a health food. Anyone ever tried them? They sure have a strong smell, that’s for sure.
Strong smell is an understatement. I know barely anything about tree types but I can easily tell a ginkgo tree in the summer; the fallen nuts’ putrid reek is unmistakable. It’s hard to believe anyone would plant rows of ginkgo trees down a path, but then, this is Korea, the land of doenjang.
If anyone has been down it, perhaps you could comment if there was any noticeable smell? Assuming there were any ginkgo nuts around.
> They say that ginko nuts are considered
> a health food. Anyone ever tried them?
Many times — when hiking in the parks they are often sold after being roasted by old grandmothers along the paths near the entranceways — w2000-3000 for a small package — amazingly delicious! Ginkgo nuts are also often cooked in stone or ceramic bowls of rice, for fancy meals…
(or am I thinking of Lotus seeds…?)
There are two basic expressions about food in Korea.
And roasted gingko nuts are indeed very tasty…
All this talk about “nuts,” “females,” and “love,” and yet nobody’s yet made an association to that reputation ginkos seems to have of being nature’s pornographic reminder of what money shots smell like.
I’m not sure if there are ginkos in the area where I grew up, or whether gingko trees really do smell like it, but whatever was causing the stench, that discomforting, undeniable whiff of masculine reek that spread forth and multiplied those Summer evenings, is known to me, as my friends would call it, “cum trees.”
Unless of course that’s the underlying joke here and I don’t know it.
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