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Climbing a tipu tree is against the rules at SCBG; instead, you can sit nearby and read about them in Matt Ritter’s essential guidebook, “A Californian’s Guide to the Trees Among Us.”

Every day she watched it jump from branch to branch, barely discernible from the yellow blossoms of the tipu tree.

At one point, she joined Boroditsky and Ochoa under a giant South American tipu tree with a broad, sweeping canopy.

Lie down in the grass under one of the two enormous South American tipu trees and behold its massive, multilimbed canopy.

He writes that the tipu “is praised for its beauty, drought tolerance and durability in varying soil conditions, but it is criticized for having invasive roots and brittle wood.”