California Gardening: Monkey Hand Tree in bloom in Fremont, 1 by PotEmUp

PotEmUp wrote:
Chiranthodendron pentadactylon http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/66985/ has been blooming for a few weeks, but I have been out of town. If you would like to come by and see it you can locate it at Rancho Arroyo Park at the bend in Montecito in the Niles District.
Facing the park, take the cement path on the left and it is the 2nd tree on the right. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.572476,-121.991463&spn...
To locate this tree and more, visit http://www.fremontica.com/roadside/index.htm where you can locate trees by name (click heading to sort that column) http://www.fremontica.com/roadside/list.htm or by location (click an area of the map, or a heading above the map to narrow the search down) http://www.fremontica.com/roadside/usermap3.php?master=1
If you look at the list my ID number, the lower numbers indicate it's inclusion, beginning with a city project list in 1974. If the name is lined out, that means that the landmark tree is now gone. For a while the site replaced the photo of the landmark tree with the tree shredder, but I guess that did not make everyone happy. The city now requires a permit to remove significant trees. Although somewhat difficult to enforce, it is at least a step in the right direction.