773. GINKGO BILOBA – Connections with people and art across a thousand years

Summary We review the representation of Ginkgo biloba L ., a quintessentially C hinese plant, in the art of those W estern botanists who first encountered it in C hina and J apan. We also show how several later representations of Ginkgo , in both the W est and the E ast, were inspired and made possible by specimens of Ginkgo in cultivation.