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Large Ficus macrophylla, Sydney Botanic Garden, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig or Australian banyan, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the mulberry and fig family Moraceae. It is native to eastern Australia, from the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland in the north to the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The infraspecies Ficus macrophylla f. columnaris is endemic to Lord Howe Island. Its common name refers to Moreton Bay in Queensland. It is best known for its imposing buttress roots. - Wikipedia

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@AlexWolfe my guess would be about 150/200 years old #ficusMacrophylla #Banyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_macrophylla
and it has seen this suburb change from swamp to paddocks to densely populated urban area 🙇‍♂️ the #lorikeets down here get drunk every year when they eat the overripe fruits :blobcat_smilehappyeyes: then they stagger across the road or footpath like little rambling pirates :birb_love: :birt_dance: everyone drives carefully when there's smell of ripe figs in the air 😆