[2013 10 12] Living fossil tree, coming from the deepest prehistory and from asia, splendid yellow foliage in autumn, strange leaves, beautiful and delicious seeds", awfully stinking juice from ripe fruits, medicinal properties (?), improbable orthography (also)... It's easy to be fascinated by Ginkgo Biloba. Let's examine and taste some Ginkgo "seed", although it's early in autumn. Materials ------------ - ginkgo fruits harvested in a nearby street, and let to ripen outside for a few days - stone saw : lustrated sandstone (~quartzite) - nutcracker : old dry ginkgo branch harvested in a nearby street (fallen from a bunch of shoots that are growing back from the stump of a ginkgo that had been cut down) - not primitive : oil (olive), metal pot, paper and electric hotplate [ I don't show a parallel experiment involving the juice (so disgusting ; don't remember having seen insects eating the "fruits"). I'm wondering (primitive ignorant's intuition) whether it would repel moulds and protect organisms against decay and all kind of insects. I've mixed the juice with some tree gum (cherry tree or almond tree gum). This gum is easily colonized by moulds, at least when water has been added and when it is still more or less liquid. We'll see later if the mixture (gum + ginkgo fruit juice) has interesting properties :-) The answer may be obvious for those who know butyric acid properties ? (something more to verify). ] [tags in descritpion : maidenhair tree gymnosperm Ginkgoaceae urban harvest urban foraging jade jewel árbol de los cuarenta escudos arbre aux quarante écus arbre aux mille écus nutcracker seed ]

• published: 12 Oct 2013
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