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The Department of Environment is in the process of pruning the ficus in Santo Domingo, thus complying with the annual maintenance plan is carried out for the care of this unique specimen, complete with another summer pruning.
Which will lighten the tree is making about 3,000 kilos of green mass, preferably small branches and leaves.
A specialist in this field officer of the company Arborist is responsible for this work.
This plan will also cover the ficus Floridablanca Artillery Barracks and Malecon.
This iconic tree now exceeds 30 meters tall, is native to Australia and was planted in the square in 1893.
The diameter of its trunk grows 5 inches a year.
Under it, remains a concrete bunker used during the civil war, which makes their roots can not have a normal vertical growth.
It also can be found in the Garden of Floridablanca and the Artillery Barracks.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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