Tree suicide in Mission Hills
Expat sent me this sad notice earlier in the week. Dateline Pioneer Park, 8 am Sunday, September 14th: Neighbors report the sound of this event was quite impressive -- a wild fig tree committing suicide. Looks like it just grew too much fruit for its own good. Since it was quite early on a Sunday, I don't think they'll find any squashed kids in strollers under there when they finish cleaning up. Note: Here are a few other photos of this park - click here, here, or here.
posted by at Saturday, September 20, 2008
5 Comments:
The site's totally cleaned up now. You wouldn't even know there had been a large tree there. Definitely no squashed kids. Phew...
Oh, no. That was a beautiful tree. I've never seen a tree do itself in before.
Guess it bore too many figs! You got some good pics though.
Yeah they were dense. I love figs (and they're really excellent in the farmer's markets right now) but I didn't trust that the Pioneer Park variety were edible.
Oh how amazing and how sad. I have a 100 year old fig in my garden and eveyr winter we have to trim limbs else they get too heavy in summer, especially with rain and then simply crack like this. Someone should have trimmed this tree back before this happened - or supported the limbs. Makes me so sad. I adore old trees and figs are particularly beautiful.
Spectacular photos, Felicia.
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