If you’ve been walking around parts of Jamaica Plain, you’ve no doubt come across the smell of gingko trees’ berries. Ned Friedman, the director of the Arnold Arboretum wrote about the trees in a recent email newsletter:
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The following was written with contributions by Jon Hetman, Lisa Pearson, and William (Ned) Friedman on behalf of the Arnold Arboretum community, and originally published on the arboretum’s website. It has been republished here with permission from the Arnold Arboretum.
“Rarely if ever before have the Arboretum Laurels (Kalmia latifolia) been as full of flower-buds as they are now, and by the time this bulletin reaches its Massachusetts readers many of the plants will be covered with flowers. The flowering of the Laurels is the last of the great Arboretum flower shows of the year, and none of those which precede it are more beautiful, for the Mountain Laurel, or the Calico Bush as it is often called, is in the judgment of many flower-lovers the most beautiful of all North American shrubs or small trees.”