Legacy Park Apple Boxes

The stoutest of these three apple boxes is also the shortest, and its crown is twice as wide as the tree is tall. It stands 11.5 metres high and spreads 23.5 metres, on a single trunk 3.95 metres round. The ACT Tree Register took all three in together in March 2024, under the territory's Urban Forest Act of 2023, for their landscape and aesthetic value and for their scientific and ecological worth. The other two are slimmer and taller. One measures 3.55 metres round and 13.5 metres high with a crown 21.5 metres wide; the other 2.85 metres round and 13 metres high. Each grows from one trunk, and all three stand within about 45 metres of one another in Legacy Park, between Savige and Garsia Streets in Campbell, close enough to take in from one spot. That is close to everything on record. The register's stated reasons are its standard criteria, with no story attached, and no source says whether the three were planted with the park or were already standing when Campbell was built. A naturalist logged an apple box at the spot in February 2024, a month before the listing, which is the latest sighting we know of. Nobody has published an age for any of them. If you know how long they have been here, or who put them there, tell us.