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A Horticulturist Weighs In on the Struggling Trees at Portland International Airport
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Willamette Week
The first time horticulturist Elizabeth Snodgrass walked through the renovated Portland International Airport about a year ago, she took in the showstopping 9-acre mass timber roof.
Then she saw the 70 live trees, including black olive (bucida), African fern pines and Indian laurel fig trees.
This is a specific kind of olive tree that’s used in interiors.
The airport is leaning toward replacing the struggling trees with ficus (fig trees).
Finally, I’d love your take on another famed Portland tree that just died, the PacWest pine on the 25th floor of the skyscraper downtown.