This fall, the fan-shaped leaves of the ginkgo tree will turn a golden yellow, and in the silence of the night, the tree will offer a little arboreal tremor and drop its entire canopy in a total release of its unique and primal foliage.
The phenomenon leaves a knobbly, naked tree and a pavement of gold. An old ginkgo can have as many as a million leaves.
Some people dislike the ginkgo, mostly for its smelly and messy fruit, others because it is not a native plant.