In this episode, Sir Peter Crane and I discuss his book Ginkgo and why it's been labeled as a 'living fossil'. This amazing tree has was around when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth and then thrived after they became extinct. This species is so resilient that it has even survived nuclear blasts.

Sir Peter Crane FRS is President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. From 1999 to 2006 he was Director of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and from 2009 to 2016 he was Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.

More information on him, the Ginkgo webpage he mentioned and Kew can be found here:

➡️ Oak Spring Garden Foundation: https://www.osgf.org/

➡️ Oak Spring Garden on Twitter: https://twitter.com/oak_spring

➡️ Oak Spring Garden on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oakspringgardenfoundation/

The website that Sir Crane referenced to find Ginkgo trees around the world and so much more:

➡️ The Ginkgo Pages: https://kwanten.home.xs4all.nl/

And where Sir Peter Crane's story all began:

➡️ Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew: https://www.kew.org/


➡️ Purchase Sir Crane's book here: https://amzn.to/2RuS2zW

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