Ginkgo biloba 'Fastigiata'Ginkgo

‘Fastigiata’ organises the ancestral growth of the Ginkgo into a more regular, vertical architecture. The trunk continues into a well-defined central leader, while the lateral branches grow at an angle of approximately 45°, forming a columnar crown, narrow at first and progressively broader. It can reach around 15 to 25 metres in height and 4 to 8 metres in spread.

The fan-shaped leaves are carried singly on the long shoots or clustered on the characteristic short shoots. During spring and summer they form a green, luminous and relatively open crown. In autumn they take on a uniform golden-yellow colour, accentuated by the vertical continuity of the crown.

It is a male selection and therefore does not produce the seeds enclosed in the fleshy coat characteristic of female specimens. This predictability makes it particularly suitable for avenues, pavements, entrances, car parks and other spaces where the cleanliness of paved surfaces is a design criterion.

It prefers full sun and well-drained soil, adapting to different textures and pH values. Once established, it has good resistance to cold, wind, air pollution, heat and periods of drought. Pruning should be limited to formative work and structural correction, preserving the central leader and the natural arrangement of the branches.

It is suited to avenue planting, boulevards, parks and formal compositions that call for a tall, regular tree with a strong vertical presence. As growth is particularly slow in youth, a mature specimen from Diaplant makes it possible to bypass that phase and bring to the project immediately a defined trunk, an organised crown and enough foliage volume to produce an expressive autumn transformation.