Queensland's oldest public garden opened in 1855, and Walter Hill, its first curator, spent the next three decades filling it with plants brought in from across the world; the results are still standing.
Seven of the trees we map grow here: the tree that started Australia's whole macadamia industry, a banyan with the finest aerial-root structure of its species in the country, the tallest tree in the gardens at forty-five metres, and a fig said to descend from the tree the Buddha sat under. All are free to walk past, a few minutes apart on paths in the middle of Brisbane's CBD.
All 13 stand in Brisbane, which maps 19 remarkable trees in total.
Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) · not firmly documented; the register's own estimate is roughly 190 years · City Botanic Gardens
The National Trust's own record puts this tamarind older than the garden around it: 'thought to predate the formation of the Botanic Gardens', which were declared in 1855, with an estimated age nea...
