<p>In 1876, a visiting seaman supposedly gave a seedling of this Morton Bay Fig tree to a girlfriend in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Santa_Barbara,_California" title="Category:Santa Barbara, California">Category:Santa Barbara</a>, Southern California. A year later, the friend replanted it in its current location - the corner of Chapala and Montecito.
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<ul><li>It is now one of the largest of all <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ficus_macrophylla" title="Category:Ficus macrophylla">Ficus macrophylla</a></i> trees in the United States. It is on the California Register of Big Trees.</li>
<li>The tree averages 80' in height, 176' in average crown spread and over 40' in diameter.</li></ul><dl><dd><dl><dd><i>"It is an awesome sight!"</i></dd></dl></dd></dl>
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