Port Jackson Fig

I read yesterday that Melbourne city council assigned email addresses to 70,000 street trees so passsers-by could report maintenance issues. Instead, the council’s in-boxes were ‘flooded with arboreal love letters and existential ruminations’.

This fig is young but if all goes well it will grow to 30 metres high and live for 100+ years.

There were ants in its hollow, and the interlocking leaves are perhaps their handiwork. The tiny yellow fig fell long before reaching maturity.

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