Ginkgo at Anguk Temple is a female tree growing in the front yard of the temple placed at the south foot of the Mt Pongrin, about 4km away from Ponghak-dong seat in Phyongsong, South Phyongan Province.

   It was planted in 503 when the temple was built.

   It has over 10 big boughs. Its lower boughs droop as they have born nuts from the beginning. And its first bough begins 5m up from the ground and has various shapes of processes, 13cm long, which are peculiar.

   It is 31 meters high, 11 meters around at root neck and 9 meters around at chest height. Its crown reaches 24 meters from east to west and 19.5 meters from south to north.

   The tree is so big that several people couldn’t hold its lower part together, and thrusts its roots deep.

   There are various types of processes and sprouts growing at the lower part of the long-grown tree.

   The ginkgo at Anguk Temple is a precise natural monument of the country which is of great significance in scientific study as a typically drooped ginkgo and also adds beauty to the antique historic site.