Roscoff Fig Tree. 7.1.22

The convent fig tree in Roscoff, France was planted in 1610. The wide ranging branches were supported by granite pillars. The branches covered an area of 600 square metres. The trunk itself had a circumference of 1.75 metres. The tree could shelter five hundred people. The tree lived into the 1980s, when it was removed.

Roscoff is a community in coastal Brittany, in NW France.