Here's a list of some supposedly (I haven't verified the list) female cultivars: 'Eastern Star' 'Elsie' 'Epiphylla' 'Geisha' 'Golden Girl' 'Hayanari' 'Liberty Splendor' 'Long March' 'Ohasuki' 'Queen of Fruit' 'Rainbow' 'Salem Lady' 'Santa Cruz' 'Sunstream' 'Tomlinson' 'Tremonia' 'Umbrella' 'Variegata'

Great list of ginkgo cultivars! I also have several ginkgoes that I'd like to swap. Some are in very short supply but will hopefully be increased for next year, such as 'Peve Maribo'. Also, I have a thousand or so ginkgo seeds from 'Patio Umbrella' a 25' tall x 50' wide female which produces a wide variety of leaf types among the seedlings. It produces heavy crops of nice size seeds which are good for rootstocks or for roasting. Here is my current list: Mayfield Chase Manhattan Horizontalis Patio Umbrella WB Akebono Princeton Sentry Todd Spring Grove #22 Variegata Peve Maribo (very limited this year) Diane Dave (Dah vay) Chi Chi Mariken Elmwood Chub's Dwarf Bill Barger Jehosephat Majestic Butterflies Hope it Holds Scruffy Butterflies Some may be place holder names or names given to otherwise unknown varieties. I'll be grafting a number of variant leaf types from Spring Grove #22, especially the linear leaf buds. No way of telling at this stage of the game if the trait will hold. I'm particularly interested in obtaining scions of 'Peve Lobo'. Please let me know if interested in exchanging scions. Thanks, Charley Hunter ihunt2006@gmail.com

sawemoff - That's a beautiful variegated small cultivar! Thanks for posting about it. I was mistaken when I suggested to dee that there weren't any dwarf varieties. Maybe that's what she has. Apparently there are several dwarfs and more being hybridized all the time. That Metromaples site (in Fort Worth) is a feast for the eyes! I sure wish I had the right soil to grow Japanese Maples too. They are gorgeous. Here's just a sampling of the Ginkgo varieties out there (large and small): 'Anny's Dwarf': dwarf form 'Autumn Gold': better fall colour and/or modified broad spreading growth habit, compact form, male, tall. 'Barabits Nana': small bushy form, up to 2 metres. 'Beijing Gold': shrub form, 4 m, yellow leaves also in spring and summer ( in summer somewhat striped) 'Bergen op Zoom': small straight up to 4 metres. 'Chase Manhattan': small, tiny darkgreen leaves, compact, ideal for bonsai and rockgarden, 1.5 m 'Chichi (Icho)': smaller leaves and a textured trunk, bark has breast-shaped protuberances 'Chris's Dwarf' (or 'Munchkin'?): see 'Munchkin' 'Chotek': weeping form of 'Witches Broom'; cultivar from Czech Republic; found by Mr Horak, Bystrice pod Hostinemin. Named to tribute the house of Choteks, the family of archbishop F. M. Chotek. 'Eastern Star': female, bears abundant crops of large nuts. 'Elmwood': vertical columnar form 'Epiphylla': female. Max. 4 m h., more wide. Seeds form on rather young plant. 'Elsie': upright growing, female. 'Fairmount': slender form, big leaves, dense pyramidal crown, male, 15 m. 'Fastigiata': architectural vertical accent, nearly columnar form, slightly wider at the base, big leaves, male (also available as female). 'Geisha': female, long pendulous branches and dark green foliage which turns lemon-yellow in fall, heavy crops of large nuts. 'Globosa': Graft on stock, bulb-shaped, compact 'Globus': Bullet-form, big leaves. 'Golden globe': Full head and spectacular yellow fall color. Trees are unusually densely branched for Ginkgos. Young trees have full crowns that mature in a broad, rounded head. Male. (from a seedling of Cleveland Tree Co. ) 'Gresham': Wide spreading horizontal branch habit. (from Gresham High School Ginkgos at Gresham, Oregon) 'Hayanari': female. 'Heksenbezem Leiden' (Witches broom): quite compact, rounded, dwarf form, branching closely grouped, up to 3 metres. 'Horizontalis': tall and wide form, many side-branches. Wide crown. 'Jade Butterfly': dense darkgreen foliage clumps, shrubby outline, vase shaped, semi dwarf, about 3 m. 'King of Dongting': slow growing, very big leaves. 'Laciniata': large deeply divided leaves 'Lakeview': compact, conical to broadly pyramidal, male. 'Liberty Splendor': broad pyramidal form with strong trunk, female. 'Long March': Upright growing, female is cultivated for heavy crops of tasty nuts. 'Magyar': uniform symmetrical branching, upright narrow pyramid form, up to 19 metres, male. 'Mariken': more compact than 'W.B.', tall about 3 ft, w.6-10 ft, branches more or less pendulous, graft on about 5 ft stock (P. Vergeldt; from a tree in Nijmegen). 'Mayfield': Narrower form than Fastigiata, tight upright, short branches, 9-12 m. 'Munchkin' (or 'Chris's Dwarf' ?): Upright habit and numerous slender branches, it has a tendency to be more regular in shape. Most leaves do not exceed the size of a quarter and are very dense on the plant. May eventually reach 6 ft but growth rate is around 4'' a year. 'Ohasuki': up to 4 metres, halfround big leaves, female. 'Pendula': branches more or less pendulous ("weeping"), slow growing, decorative. 'Prague or Pragense': low spreading and parasol-shaped. 'Princeton Sentry': well known cultivar, slow growing, big decorative leaves, upright conical form gives very formal focal point, male, 30 m. Improved "Fastigiata". Name derived from tree in Princeton Cemetary. 'Rainbow': striped with green/yellow leaves, about 3 m. Improved 'Variegata'. Remove green leaved branch immediately. 'Salem Lady': female from Oregon. 'Santa Cruz': female, low, spreading, umbrella-shaped. 'Saratoga': dense branches, small yellow-green leaves, slow growth, rounded outline, male, 10 m. 'Shangri-La': fast growing with compact pyramidal form, 14 metres, grows somewhat faster, male. 'Spring Grove': dwarf, very small and compact, about 3 m. 'Tit': = Chichi (Icho). 'Tremonia': small, pyramidal form, very big leaves, female, 10 m. 'Troll': compact 'W.B.', leaves vary from normal to rounded (Johann Wieting; from a tree in Krefeld, Germany. 'Tubifolia': slender leaves form sort of tub shape, slow growing, decorative, small tree, fairly compact branching, about 3 m. 'Umbrella': compact, densely branched, different leaf-forms and sizes. 'Variegata':shrub form with variegated foliage, some leaves 'halved' green and gold, others striped and others half gold/half striped, up to 3 metres, female. It often reverts to green (see 'Rainbow'). Half-shaded position. 'Windover': broad oval outline, shade tree, 17 m. 'W.B.' ('Witches Broom'): dwarf form, compact, rounded, lightgreen leaf, closely grouped branches, about 2.75 m.

where are you.. z5 is about half the US.. and wildly variable ... in my MI .... Gs are very slow.. and i am thinking because of the rather short active growing season ... it is a tree .. as such.. there is no ultimate size ... as it will keep growing forever ... until you or it dies ... ergo ... if you could find an annual growth rate ... you could estimate its size in a given time period ... e.g. if it grows a foot a year ... in tens years it should be around 10 feet.. in 20.. 20.. etc ... B&B is in the PNW ... with its extremely long growing season .. so i would tamp down any growth rate they might have ... and presume.. it would grow less in my z5 .. where the growing season might be 3 or 4 months shorter ... i have the common variegata .. id say.. in 10 years ... its barely 8 feet tall ... all that said.. its a really cool plant.. and if you have the budget.. and the space.. i would suggest you need to have it ... to make your toes tingle ... ken