Let's find small creatures in the forest

 The ginkgo ( Ichō in Japanese) tree is Japan's most common street tree, spectacular in autumn and notorious for its smelly fruit. Its scientific name is Ginkgo biloba L. The fruit has a very bad odor, but after washing away the smelly pulp with plenty of water, ginkgo nuts appear. There are many ways to eat them, crack open the shells and roast seeds inside in a frying pan, we get a very tasty snack to go with beer. The ginkgo tree I'm introducing today is a variant one that produces ginkgo fruits integrated with its leaves, unlike the normal variety.  Of course, this type of weird ginkgo fruit occupies only a small portion of all ginkgo fruits produced; most of the ginkgo fruit are formed directly from the tips of short fruiting branches, the same as ordinary ginkgo trees.  Although more than 20 of these trees have been identified in Japan, only seven, including this ginkgo tree, are designated as a national natural monument.  It was designated a national natural...