ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
Ginkgo biloba was introduced in Europe in the 18th century, the one surviving in the botanical garden of Utrecht probably being among the first ones that arrived (around 1730). On September 27, 1815, Goethe wrote a poem in Heidelberg which he attributed to the glory of this tree “entrusted by the Orient to his garden” and of his beloved friend Marianne Von Willemer, and which was inspired by the duality that could be reunited in a single entity (Goethe, 1819).
