银杏 / Ginkgo

I’m a surviving plant branch from ancient landscapes—your land-vertebrate relatives had green neighbours with remarkable family histories!
我是古老景观中留存下来的植物支系——你的陆生脊椎动物亲戚，也有家史精彩的绿色邻居！

Sources
Multiple haploids, triploids, and tetraploids found in modern-day “living fossil” Ginkgo biloba
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41438-018-0055-9
The nearly complete genome of Ginkgo biloba illuminates gymnosperm evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-021-00933-x
Multifeature analyses of vascular cambial cells reveal longevity mechanisms in old Ginkgo biloba trees.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916548117
Species reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_biloba

Research context
Ginkgo provides botanical context for terrestrial vertebrate evolution. Its fossil relatives document changing land ecosystems, while the living species illustrates survival of one branch of a once more diverse plant lineage.