Australian Rubber Tree of Ponta Delgada

In 2026 Portugal voted this fig the second best tree in the country. The national Tree of the Year contest drew more than 18,000 votes, the Diário de Notícias reported, and the Australian rubber tree of Ponta Delgada finished on the podium behind the cedar of Runa in Torres Vedras. Australian rubber tree is the local name for a Moreton Bay Fig. There is one honest complication. Two more Moreton Bay Figs are mapped inside the Jardim José do Canto, just behind it. The tree on this pin is the one mapped under the contest's exact name, at the street edge of Rua Calço da Má Cara against the garden wall, but nothing on record ties the entry to this trunk. If you voted for it, or know which tree it was, tell us. No published figure gives its age, girth or height, so the contest result is the strongest thing on record for it. For a tree native to the far side of the world, second place in a country of cork oaks and olives is a fair result. The street side is public and needs no ticket. The garden behind the wall has its own entrance. It is about ten minutes on foot from the Campo de São Francisco in central Ponta Delgada.