Napier Street

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    Street
    Social, Visual,
    tree type
    Evergreen
    age class
    Mature
    origin
    Native
    height
    Medium (10-20m)
    spread
    Medium (10-20m)
    listing
    Local
    dbh
    Medium (50-100cm)
    Year Planted
    c. 1950
    Owner
    City of Sydney

    Scheduled Significant Trees

    Qty Common Name Species Locations
    20 Hills Weeping Fig Ficus microcarpa var. hillii Find more locations

    Description

    The figs are located in a rather narrow street bordered by terraces. The canopies of these figs create a more or less contiguous, lineal corridor and tunnel effect over the roadway and adjoining terraces. There have been several removals in the street as a result of substantial structural damage to adjoining properties.

    Significance

    This avenue of Hill’s Weeping Figs (Ficus microcarpa var. hillii) creates one of the more memorable single species street tree groups in the City of Sydney LGA. Although there are no individually significant specimens, these figs have local group significance in terms of their visual and social values.

    There are relatively few examples of the mature, single species avenue within the City of Sydney LGA. Moreover, this thematic planting style is carried through to Selwyn Street, further enhancing the aesthetic character of this neighbourhood (refer to listing in this Register). The figs are proposed to be replaced as they decline with a slightly smaller street tree but one with similar broad leaf evergreen character being the Weeping Lilly Pilly (Waterhousea floribunda).

    Historical notes

    No street tree planting is evident in either Napier or Selwyn Streets in the 1943 aerial photographs of Sydney, although the adjoining terraces date from mid to late 1800’s. The Hills Fig planting possibly dates from the early Post War period (1945 to 1960’s) with additional successive phases of infill and replacement planting.

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    Last modified: 4 March, 2014