the carpark the entrance at the corner Third Road and Church Avenue in Armadale, Western Australia.

The tree is in fairly poor condition: about three quarters of its canopy is dead or gone, and it is less than half its normal height due to lopping.

It was ringbarked by vandals in 1997, and it has responded by producing numerous epicormic shoots on its north side.

Attempts to have the tree destroyed were twice defeated by community groups, in 1987 and again in 1997.

In 1997 a Conservation Order was issued for the tree after the Minister for Heritage received 1,147 submissions asking that it be saved.