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South Hall Palm Tree Has Fallen

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image of a fallen palm tree near UC Berkeleys South Hall

Around midnight Jan. 9 2008, the large palm tree on the southwest side of South Hall fell down. From the look of it, a steam pipe underneath the root system essentially cooked the palm's root system. I took some pictures of the magnificent shrub, click on the image above to see the Flickr set.