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    A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    I went to lunch with some coworkers yesterday at this Chinese Restaurant and couldn't help but notice the massive fig tree that covers a good portion of Glassell St. It has branches that are as tall and wide as most trees around town.

    Check this thing out on google maps street view.

    The first ever exposure I made with my 8x10 was made down the street from here on E. River Ave. I had stumbled upon a massive Maple tree in front of a house. At the time, I did not know about the fig tree. The house next door also has a massive Pine tree. The trees and the homes make for interesting pictures because of the contrast between the giant trees and the very modest homes that lie juxtaposed to one another.

    I'm going to head out later tonight and try to make a picture or two of these trees.

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    Re: A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    Very cool!
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    Re: A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    http://www.sandykingphotography.com/...cient-fig-tree

    Check this one out. Fig tree native to southeast Asia, but planted in the highlands of Veracruz, near Xalapa, in the 16th century.

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    Re: A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    California, which I left because of the masses of humans in 1983, certainly has many noble trees. I miss the trees. One of my challenges living in Nevada. If 34 and a half million people would go somewhere else, it is most certainly paradise. My grandmother's family arrived there from New Mexico by train in 1914. Ride the street cars anywhere you wanted to go.

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    Re: A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    That looks like a Moreton Bay Fig. They are huge. One prime specimen is in Santa Barbara. Fantastic old trees.
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    Re: A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    Quote Originally Posted by sanking View Post
    http://www.sandykingphotography.com/...cient-fig-tree

    Check this one out. Fig tree native to southeast Asia, but planted in the highlands of Veracruz, near Xalapa, in the 16th century.

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    Re: A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    Sandy,
    I think I saw that tree in the Museo El Lencero, an old Hacienda that belonged to general Santa Ana a distant relative. It's located like you said in Veracruz, near Jalapa.
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    Re: A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    That is pretty incredible. It most have been something standing next to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sanking View Post
    http://www.sandykingphotography.com/...cient-fig-tree

    Check this one out. Fig tree native to southeast Asia, but planted in the highlands of Veracruz, near Xalapa, in the 16th century.

    Sandy

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    Re: A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    The scene reminds me of the work of one of Quebec's most famous (certainly most popular) painters, Marc-Aurele Fortin.

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    Re: A Huge Fig Tree in Orange, CA

    Quote Originally Posted by Ivan View Post
    Sandy,
    I think I saw that tree in the Museo El Lencero, an old Hacienda that belonged to general Santa Ana a distant relative. It's located like you said in Veracruz, near Jalapa.
    That is the tree. The first construction at Lencero, a boarding house, dates to about 1545 and belonged to Juan de Lencero, one of Corte's soldiers. In the 16th century there was a active trade route from the Pacific coast of Mexico with merchandise arriving from Asia, to the gulf port of Veracruz. The tree probably arrived in Mexico by this route. Apparently there is not another tree of its kind in the region.

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