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Send a major part of it to the Hawaiin fire relief fund.
We took a tour of the Lahaina area in 2012 when we did a tour of the Islands.
The tree has served as a landmark for residents and visitors of Lahaina for decades.
By most accounts, the sprawling tree was the heart of the oceanside community. Towering more than 18 metres and anchored by multiple trunks that span nearly 0.4 hectares, its leafy branches unfurled majestically to give shade from the sun.
The tree was just a two-metre sapling when it was planted in 1873, a gift shipped from India to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Protestant mission in Lahaina.