Burmese Banyan, Mount Pleasant Road

Burmese Banyan, Mt Pleasant RoadAngie Ng, in her 70s, author of A Guide To The Fabulous Figs of SingaporeMs Ng’s favourite tree stands at the entrance of a black-and-white colonial bungalow.Around 30m tall, covering an area of 91 m 2 , this banyan is one of the oldest inSingapore. A frequent visitor to the tree, she had successfully germinated someseedlings from the fig fruit and given them to Jacob Ballas Children’s Gardens of theSingapore Botanical Gardens.