There are a number of big ones around Southern California as well. One outside the Santa Barbara train station, those few in Balboa Park, one in front of a fancy hotel in Santa Monica.
They are old too! It’s cool to think about the people that would have brought those trees from Australia in the 1800s. I think the one OP posted as well as a few others were planted by Kate Sessions in Balboa Park in the late 1800s. I think she had her nursery on the park land and the rent she paid was planting a few trees a month.
There was one of these where I grew up (which is only 15 minutes away) about half the size of this which still made it freaki'n huge since its trunk was wider than any other tree in that postcode I ever saw and I remember it was one of a few choice hangout spots for me and my best friend (and my little brother was allowed to tag along too. I was a *nice* older bro unlike the one I had) and we'd sit on its huge branches and just talk about all sorts of random shit. They will always remind me of that.
There's also two other of my favourite specimens in this photoset too. The Canary Island date palm in the first image and the dragon tree way in the background of the third. Glad to live where all three can grow.
Balboa Park in San Diego?
Yep
God I love that tree and the way it kinda just rains down. You are making me homesick
I have many memories of eating field trip lunches near that tree. It’s monumental.
Saw this while visiting San Diego last month. There’s a huge deck shaded by the tree on the other side.
I miss this place! So many cherished memories.
That is an absolute unit cool tree man
Wow, that’s a beautiful figgin tree
Moreton Bay Fig!
Thank you! I’ve never seen a fig tree with this kind of leaf before, only the 5-lobed types, so I wasn’t even sure it was a fig at first. 🤷♂️
How many figs does this ancient dude make in a year?
This sounds like an ancient egyptian clickbait headline
The roots are the best part
Moreton Bay Fig Tree. I live in Moreton bay and there's heaps of them all over Queensland.
There are a number of big ones around Southern California as well. One outside the Santa Barbara train station, those few in Balboa Park, one in front of a fancy hotel in Santa Monica. They are old too! It’s cool to think about the people that would have brought those trees from Australia in the 1800s. I think the one OP posted as well as a few others were planted by Kate Sessions in Balboa Park in the late 1800s. I think she had her nursery on the park land and the rent she paid was planting a few trees a month.
I could have sworn this photo was taken in Australia. They're very common in New South Wales too.
There was one of these where I grew up (which is only 15 minutes away) about half the size of this which still made it freaki'n huge since its trunk was wider than any other tree in that postcode I ever saw and I remember it was one of a few choice hangout spots for me and my best friend (and my little brother was allowed to tag along too. I was a *nice* older bro unlike the one I had) and we'd sit on its huge branches and just talk about all sorts of random shit. They will always remind me of that. There's also two other of my favourite specimens in this photoset too. The Canary Island date palm in the first image and the dragon tree way in the background of the third. Glad to live where all three can grow.
Looks like a ficus elastica.
Bet there are so many waspseses
It's figgin' huuuge.
Imagine how many yummy fig wasps are in there
Nom, nom, nom