Huge moreton bay fig tree, with extensive root system.

A lovely rainy day walk through the Palos Verdes Estates Botanical Garden. Moreton Bay Fig. 🪴 🌱 🌳

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In a public park a Moreton Bay Fig tree with their iconic huge elephant like root system

In a public park a Moreton Bay Fig tree with their iconic huge elephant like root system and enormous branches and canopy

In a public park a Moreton Bay Fig tree with one of their huge roots surfacing like a lawn crocodile

In a public park a Moreton Bay Fig tree with their iconic huge canopy and wide wing span

just spent some time under this absolute legend of a #MoretonBayFig #tree 🍃❤️‍🔥🦘 #sydney #straya

Reposting one more of my favorite 2025 posts.

I love Moreton Bay Fig trees. 🙂🌳

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Today I had fun sketching with @usknorthoc at Heritage Park in Santa Fe Springs. I used a brush pen to draw one of my beloved Moreton Bay Fig trees.

#drawing #zeichnung #plenair #disegno #dessin #dibujo #그림 #図 #рисунок #画 #رسم #चित्रकारी #brushpen #santafesprings #moretonbayfig

Moreton Bay Fig Tree in @pointferminpark, @sanpedro.california. Colored pencils.

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huge solitary moreton bay fig tree towering over a riverside foreshore

#silentSunday #moretonbayfig

Moreton Bay figs (Ficus macrophylla or Australian banyan) are native to Eastern Australia. Known for their buttress roots, akin to the buttressing breakthrough in Gothic architecture that enabled the spanning of large areas of space. The way these trees open up through the centre allows light to stream through the interconnected canopy providing a stained-glass effect, similar to a Gothic cathedral. One of the largest cultivated evergreen fig trees, it grows from 23 to 55 m tall and 21 to 40 m wide. Known to live for more than 150 years, Banyans grow an average of 91 cm per year. Blooms in summer, with inconspicuous flowers. Produces edible figs that turn purple as they ripen in Autumn. Requires ample growing space. In this image, two ancient banyan trees dwarf a metal gate. Photo: Clare Peddie, Willunga, South Australia.

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.”

― Herman Hesse

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