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===Notable specimens=== <!-- Editors please ensure any additions to this section are well supported with quality references --> Large specimens of Moreton Bay fig trees are found in many parks and properties throughout eastern and northeastern Australia. The [[City Botanic Gardens|Brisbane]], [[Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria|Melbourne]], and [[Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney|Sydney]] botanic gardens contain numerous specimens planted in the middle of the 19th century, which are up to {{convert|35|m|ft|abbr=out}} tall.<ref name="EJ15" /> At [[Mount Keira]], near [[Wollongong]] there is a Moreton Bay fig measured at {{convert|58|m|ft}} tall.<ref>{{cite web|title=Moreton Bay Fig – Mount Keira|url=http://www.nationalregisterofbigtrees.com.au/listing_view.php?listing_id=397|work=National Tree Register of Big Trees|access-date=23 November 2011}}</ref> A notable tree in the Sydney suburb of [[Randwick]], the 150-year-old "Tree of Knowledge", was controversially cut down in 2016 to make way for the [[CBD and South East Light Rail]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/11/historic-moreton-bay-fig-being-felled-to-make-way-for-sydney-light-rail | title=Historic Moreton Bay fig being felled to make way for Sydney light rail | date =11 July 2016 | access-date=3 April 2018 | work=The Guardian}}</ref> There are many large specimens in New Zealand. A Moreton Bay fig at [[Pahi (Northland)|Pahi]] on the [[Kaipara Harbour]], [[Northland Region|Northland]], was measured in 1984 as {{convert|26.5|m|ft}} high and {{convert|48.5|m|ft}} wide, and in 2011 had a girth of {{convert|14.8|m|ft}}.<ref>{{cite book|title=Great Trees of New Zealand |first1=S.W. | last1=Burstall |first2=E.V. | last2=Sale |year=1984 |location=Wellington, New Zealand |isbn=978-0-589-01532-9 |page=39 |publisher=Reed}}</ref> The Moreton Bay fig was introduced into cultivation into [[California]] in the United States in the 1870s, 13 specimens being classified as Exceptional Trees of Los Angeles in 1980.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/majestic-mammoths-a-brief-history-of-las-moreton-bay-fig-trees | access-date=3 April 2018 | date= 2018 | title=Majestic Mammoths: A Brief History of L.A.'s Moreton Bay Fig Trees | publisher=KCETLink (formerly Community Television of Southern California) | first=Nathan | last=Masters}}</ref> The [[Moreton Bay fig (Balboa Park)|tallest ''Ficus macrophylla'' in North America]] is adjacent to [[San Diego]]'s [[San Diego Natural History Museum|Natural History Museum]] and was planted in 1914. By 1996 it stood {{convert|23.7|m|ft}} high and the crown was {{convert|37.4|m|ft}} wide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sdnhm.org/about-us/history/museum-lore/moreton-bay-fig-tree/ |title=Moreton Bay Fig Tree |website=The Nat |publisher=San Diego Natural History Museum |access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref> The widest Moreton Bay fig in North America is [[Santa Barbara's Moreton Bay Fig Tree]]. It was planted in 1876, reportedly by a young girl who was given a seedling by an Australian sailor. It measures {{convert|175|ft|m}} across.<ref name=independent>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.com/news/2011/dec/21/sb-big-trees/|title=S.B. Big Trees: The Moreton Bay Fig Tree was Planted from a Cutting from Australia|last=Hayes|first=Virginia|date=21 December 2011|work=Santa Barbara Independent|access-date=18 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319000822/http://www.independent.com/news/2011/dec/21/sb-big-trees/|archive-date=19 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Aoyama Tree stands between the [[Japanese American National Museum]] and the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles#The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA|Temporary Contemporary]] in downtown Los Angeles. It was planted by Buddhist Japanese Americans in the early 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/everytree/aoyama.html|title=Aoyama Tree|last=The Cultural Landscape Foundation|year=2010|work=Every Tree Tells a Story: The Cultural Landscape Foundation's 2010 Landslide |publisher=The Cultural Landscape Foundation |access-date=10 January 2012 |location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> Two South African specimens, in the [[Arderne Gardens]] in [[Claremont, Cape Town|Claremont]] and the [[National Zoological Gardens of South Africa|Pretoria Zoo]] respectively, have the widest and second-widest canopies of any single-stemmed trees in the country. The Pretoria specimen was planted before 1899, and was {{convert|27|m|ft}} tall with a canopy width of {{convert|43.1|m|ft}} by 2012.<ref name=jmv>{{cite news|last=Versluis |first=Jeanne-Marié |title=Reuse-vyeboom op kampioen-lys |url=http://152.111.1.88/argief/berigte/beeld/2013/01/04/B1/3/tjmvye.html |access-date=9 January 2013 |newspaper=Beeld |date=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409175447/http://152.111.1.88/argief/berigte/beeld/2013/01/04/B1/3/tjmvye.html |archive-date=9 April 2015 }}</ref><ref name=schw>{{cite web |last1=Schwan |first1=Angeliné |title=Who planted this massive tree? |url=http://www.nzg.ac.za/newsletter/issues/27/05.php |website=National Zoological Gardens of South Africa |publisher=National Research Foundation |access-date=11 December 2015 |archive-date=22 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222174649/http://www.nzg.ac.za/newsletter/issues/27/05.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> There is a notable specimen sprawling on steps at the [[Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra]], Portugal.<ref>{{cite book |title=Remarkable Trees of the World |last=Pakenham |first=Thomas |year=2002 |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |location=London |isbn=978-0-297-84300-9 |pages=146–47}}</ref> ''Ficus macrophylla'' has been used in public spaces in Palermo in Sicily, with impressive specimens found in the Orto Botanico, the gardens of the Villa Garibaldi, Giardino Inglese, and in some squares.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dummett|first1=Jeremy|title=Palermo, City of Kings: The Heart of Sicily|date=2015|publisher=I.B.Tauris|location=London|isbn=978-1-78453-083-9|page=218|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KqC9BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA218}}</ref>
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