Ginkgo (I)

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A Chinese Tree Goes for the Gold. Wall Street Journal, Nov 29, 2014 (under the heading: Photo of the Week; in the Review section that appears every Saturday)
("A tourist walks over a gingko tree that is more than 1,500 years old in a village in Hubei Province on Tuesday")

My comment:
(a) Below the aforesaid legend is the sagement: "For more iages: WSJ.com/Photos."  However, the photo does not appear in the URL.
(b) I then searched the Web. It is at Xinhua website. Back to the photo in the hard copy of Wall Street Journal, the credit for th photo is "Song Wen/Xinhua/Zuma Press."
(c) So the photo is from Xinhua all right.

Walk Amid the Gingko Leaves. Xinhua, Nov 26, 2014.
usa.chinadaily.com.cn/travel/2014-11/26/content_18978593.htm

The Wall Street Journal published on photo 4, whose legend in Xinhua is: "A tourist wanders amid gingko leaves beside an old gingko tree in Maobatang village of Xuan'en county, Central China's Hubei province, Nov 25, 2014."

湖北省(恩施土家族苗族自治州) 宣恩县 茅坝塘
(d) I heard that Ginkgo (there are at least two spellings for this English word) was beautiful and its fruit or core is edible, but could never understand why. Boston has a few, in Boston common and as sidewalk trees. They were young and scrawny, not old enough to bear fruits (except a couple on Massachusetts Avenue, whose fruits nobody pays attention and rot on the sidewalk.