These are leaves from the Ginkgo trees in Weimar and Jena (Germany), they belong to the eldest Ginkgo trees in Europe. They are more than 200 years old, both were planted by our beloved German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
I tried to use Ginkgo leaves as a motif for my block with five leaves forming a circle, thereby giving space for five petals in the middle in another color, all having their origin in the five-sided form in the center.
Since I had been thinking of Ginkgos this way for a longer time now, I was very glad to find these lovely trees: in Weimar opposite the Amalia Library, or here in Jena in the very lovely Botanical Gardens:
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