When it was planted in 1896 , this Canary Island date palm counted the orange tree trees of an Anaheim citrous fruit grove as its neighbour . Today it rubs shoulder joint with the bamboo stalk of Adventureland .
The tree diagram was already 58 years sometime when Walt Disney boughtthe ranch it ornamentedfor his young development . dozer before long reconfigured the landscape , toppling orange Tree and carving unreal river into the ground . But Disney personally intervened to spare this one palm tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , be active it a short aloofness and incorporating it within the tropical flora of Adventureland .
And there is grows today . Though almost every facet of the Mungo Park has been renovated and reimagined , the palm still stands in the heart of Disneyland ’s hobo camp realm , its fronds fill in a FastPass dispersion cubicle near the Jungle Cruise ride .
It ’s a living landmark , hiding in unmistakable sight .
Morgan Evans , the horticulturalist who oversaw Disneyland ’s original landscape gardening , tells the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ’s tale in Disneyland : World of Flowers , a 1965 Word that ’s long been out of print :
plant in 1896 by an early rancher , it was a stalwart and revered resident of his front lawn , admired by three generation of kid and adult . One extremity of the family was get married beneath it . When the owner of the land sold his land area to Walt Disney in 1954 , he request that this venerable medal be preserve . Walt was more than happy to oblige , but since the tree stood in the middle of Section C of the throw parking lot , he order that it be cautiously “ balled , ” lift tenderly from its honest-to-goodness home and trundled , all 15 lashings of it , to Adventureland .
really , save the tree made sense for Disneyland . Once the bulldozers left , a eucalyptus tree shelterbelt and a few scattered orange Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree were all that remained of the once - verdant landscape painting . Disney ’s Magic Kingdom was little more than a sandy waste .
creditworthy for re - greening Disney ’s 160 Akko , Evans and his brother Jack search far and wide for Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that fit the character of the park ’s themed lands . His book bristles with details about how the horticulturalists met that challenge .
In the New Orleans Square expanse , for case , the Evans invest four Libyan Islamic Fighting Group trees scavenge from business district L.A. ’s Pershing Square . And in Frontierland the Evans planted an already - ripe Moreton Bay common fig tree . A gift from an oil company , the tree diagram came with a four - in oil line embed in its root structure . That pipe is still swallow up there today , near the entrance to the Pirates of the Caribbean .
The top paradigm come from Disneyland : World of Flowers ( 1965 ) by Morgan Evans ; others are by the author .
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