What tree is ginkgo called? What are its two uses?

Ginkgo biloba grows slowly and has a very long life. It takes more than 20 years from planting to fruiting, and it takes 40 years to produce a large number of fruits. Therefore, it is also called "gongsunshu", which means "public planting, the sun gets food". It's the birthday girl on the tree. There is a big ginkgo tree in Ding Lin Temple of Fulaishan, Juxian County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province. It is said that it was planted in Shang Dynasty and has a history of more than 4,000 years. What an old tree! Ginkgo tree has ornamental, economic and medicinal value, and its whole body is "treasure". It, together with Cedar, Nanyang Pine and Money Pine, is known as the four largest garden trees in the world. Ginkgo biloba is the oldest gymnosperm left after the Quaternary Glacier Movement and one of the most precious tree species in the world, so it is known as the "living fossil" in the plant world.

In fact, this big ginkgo tree in Ding Lin Temple is not the largest. Before 1986, there was a bigger ginkgo tree in Qiao Zhuang Village, Hecheng Town, Xiangyang District, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province. It is said that it took eight talents to hold it up. If the weather is fine, you can see the top of the tree 20 kilometers away. Unfortunately, the weather was dry, and people in the village were afraid that the tree would dry up, so they dug a small ditch around the tree and applied farmyard manure and chemical fertilizer to the tree.