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This Christmas present was ready in time for Mom's birthday in January. Used a jolly roll of Fig Tree fabric.
Title: View from Figtree Bridge at Hunters Hill (NSW)
Dated: c.31/12/1908
Digital ID: 18526_a024_000104
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Family : Moraceae
The arial roots of this massive buttressed Lord Howe Island endemic tree drop down to the ground and eventually become support trunks in their own right .
Reportedly the most cold tolerant of the figs,it is a massive speading tree but unlike Ficus Virens (The Northern Banyan) it has no discernable central origin.
It will grow up to 20 metres in height and from those I saw,a single tree can cover an area of something like 2 hectares with massive post like roots hanging down to the ground supporting the weighty spreading branches.
Usually it can be found associated with Howea forsteriana (Kentia Palm) in the lowland forests but can grow up to 500m on the sides of Mt Lidgbird and Mt Gower.
There are some good examples on the golf course.
The local birds such as the Lord Howe Currawong relish the ripe purple fruits.
This fig is far too big for planting anywhere where it cannot be given room to eventually spread.
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A day of protest, police, chainsaws and woodchips sees nine Morteon Bay figtrees removed from Anzac Parade at the point where the cut and cover tunnel will intersect the busy arterial road.
Although discussion apparently got heated at times, the constable I chatted to indicated no problems during the day.
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Ziva David heard the guys (the Lagotto Romagnolo dogs) talking about searching truffles on the roots of some trees and she wants to find them too. :-)))
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The Morpeth train at the quarry (under Figtree Hill)
Ca. 1900 - 1920
Photographer: William Henry Weston
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This part of Australia was officially claimed for Britain in 1791 when Commander George Vancouver sighted and named King George Sound and Princess Royal Harbour. The French navigator Nicholas Baudin explored the area in 1803. By the early 1820s whalers were making temporary camps around King George Sound. Frenchman Dumont D’Urville visited the area in 1826. Later that year fearing that the French might make a settlement there Governor Darling of NSW sent a troop of soldiers to King George Sound to make camp. Twenty-three convicts, 18 soldiers, a doctor and storeskeeper were sent to found a camp. They arrived in the brig named Amity on Christmas Day 1826. The tiny settlement struggled and had several commanders including Collett Barker from 1829-31. But once the Swan River Colony was proclaimed in 1829 the control of the King George Sound settlement was transferred from NSW to Governor Stirling in Perth. Strawberry Hill farm was soon established in 1827 as a government farm to provide food for the convicts and soldiers. The town site of Albany was surveyed in 1831 and Governor Stirling chose the town name of Albany in 1832. One early settler Patrick Thomas built a wattle and daub cottage in 1832. It is now on the Albany Walk listed below. It is the oldest extant cottage in WA. Farmers were slow to arrive and settle but by the 1840s Albany was the busiest port in the colony. Perth was never the main area of population in early WA. The oldest church in WA was erected here between 1841 and 1848 – St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church. Right from the start Albany had whalers among its settlers. Like other towns in WA Albany grew and infrastructure was built after transportation of convicts began in 1850. A convict built station for the hiring out of convicts as assigned men to farmers was erected in 1852. In 1872 it became the town gaol. Convicts were used to build the Albany to Perth road from 1853. A municipal Council for Albany was established in 1871 and a granite Town Hall built in 1888. With the opening of the railway from Perth in 1889 the city grew and expanded.
•Princess Royal Fortress and the ANZACS. Rather amazingly the Princess Royal Fortress atop Mt Adelaide in Albany was built jointly by the Australian colonies in 1893 long before federation. All the colonies could see value in a joint defence facility and they contributed in proportion to their populations and the British government provided the guns. The guns were decommissioned by the Commonwealth in 1956 and fortunately they had never been fired for defence. The fort had armouries, batteries, barracks for troops and stores. The Princess Royal Fort played a major role in World War One as this was the last point of departure from Australia for troops, supplies and horses. 28 Australian and 10 New Zealand ships assembled here in November 1914 before leaving for Egypt and Gallipoli. 30,000 troops and 7,500 horses departed from here at that time. Father Arthur White of the Albany Anglican Church is believed to have held the first memorial services on Anzac Day for fallen soldiers here starting in 1918.
Moreton Bay figtree in the Sydney botanical gardens. This is an adult version of the infant figtrees recently planted at Blaxland Park, near Homebush & the Sydney Olympic Park. It grows to a massive size and has impressive buttress roots. This one was probably planted in the mid to late 1800s. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_macrophylla
There are also Port Jackson figtrees which look very similar.
Fig Tree Cave is off the beaten path south of Exmouth in the Cape Range. Fig Tree Cave is one amoung hundreds of caves throughout the Cape Range.
The British diplomats - John Wesley Shepstone (left) and other diplomats (right). A folding campaign table is shown (centre).
Thought I best try and get one or two of this massive tree, that is part of or in the grounds of the Fig Tree Hotel or Motel in Narrandera, NSW. I decided when I stayed there last October that it was too big for any of my gear, but wandered around the other side last Thursday morning and grabbed a few hand helds, nothing outstanding but a bit of a happy snap.
Little MOC or vignette. No elaborate construction, but lots o' flowers!! ^^
You can find a fig tree, a fuchsia bush, some daisies and dandelions, what was supposed to be lavender, but let's say they're violets! Plus some edible and non-edible mushrooms! And then there's all the wildlife!! Kinda wanna be there right now… !
I never knew that the dead-looking tree in the house we recently moved in was a fig tree. Imagine how excited I was to find out it could give fruits. it even never blossomed!