SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- For the first time in years, the public can now get a closer view of the Moreton Bay Fig tree at San Diego’s famed Balboa Park. Standing at more than 78 feet high, the tree isn’t ...

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Balboa Park has hundreds of different tree species, including rarities like palms grown from seeds found in the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. But no tree looms as large as the iconic Moreton Bay fig ...

A nonprofit group is proposing to build a viewing platform for an iconic Moreton Bay Fig tree in Balboa Park. Friends of Balboa Park has raised $200,000 to put a 16-foot-wide raised platform around a ...

If trees could talk, the celebrated 109-year-old Moreton Bay fig just north of the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park would say, “Welcome back.” Friday, on Arbor Day, the nonprofit group ...

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They were doing the line dance when what sounded like firecrackers split the air. Because the sound was to be expected at a Chinese lantern festival, no one immediately noticed the demise of a fig ...

At Selby Gardens, illustrator John Pirman spotted two girls scaling the massive Moreton Bay fig tree next to the Children’s Rainforest Garden. He says he admires the flowing form of the tree’s ...

It may have been too warm for my lightweight jacket, but it was beginning to feel a lot like Christmas standing outside the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, California. I had flown from Washington, D ...

As legend has it, the story of this tree dates back to the late nineteenth century. An Australian sailor had no money to pay for his drinks in a local bar and instead paid the bartender with a sapling ...