The Big-leaved Banyan of Hong Kong Park's Tai Chi Garden

This fig is twenty metres tall and thirty-four metres wide, a crown that has spent its life going sideways rather than up. Underneath it is a trunk 2.71 metres across at chest height, which makes it the thickest tree on the government's old and valuable register anywhere in Central and Western district, bar one: the rubber tree that has grown across Lugard Road on the Peak. It is also a local. The big-leaved fig is native to Hong Kong, unlike the India-rubber tree, and among the local banyans it is the one that drops its leaves. It stands outside the perimeter wall of Hong Kong Park's Tai Chi Garden, and it has company. Within about 140 metres the register counts four more banyans, a second big-leaved fig 22 metres tall, a kapok, and three trees growing out of stone walls a few metres from this one. The tallest of those banyans, 70 metres away, has its own entry on this page, and so does the kapok. None of them comes close to this trunk. The park's outdoor areas open from six in the morning until eleven at night, and the tree was inspected and recorded alive in May 2026. Nobody has recorded its age; if you know it, tell us.