Sunday, May 01, 2016 Root tale: A walking tour of the UCLA campus plants database Wendy Soderburg | March 16, 2016 Tamar Levine/UCLA Let's begin our tour with North Campus. A towering weeping fig grows at the southeast corner of the North Campus Student Center. It produces thousands of small figs, many of which drop to the ground in winter and form a crunchy groundcover. In the weeping fig's native Asia, birds find the figs to be a big treat, Dollase says. But American birds -- for whatever reason -- just don't see the appeal. Tamar Levine/UCLA Reflected in the glass of Bunche Hall's north side is a Canary Island pine, by far the most numerous of the types of trees planted on campus. Because of its lofty, columnar shape, Dollase says, the tree is often used to extend and soften the abrupt
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