Does anyone know if the Washington Navel Parent Tree which was growing in Eliza Tibbets Memorial Park, in Riverside California is still alive? I am going to be at the University of California at Riverside from 3-11-07 until 3-13-07.

Millet
Robert Southwell

Any chance you could come up here?

As of 2006-04-30 , the First navel orange tree:

"Riverside

It's still there, growing at the corner of Magnolia and Arlington avenues in Riverside, the mother of all navel oranges. But forget the miracle of the tree, planted in the 1870s. Think instead about the land rush it started. On postcards and orange crates, its Edenic and well-watered simplicity sold and transformed the Southern California landscape."

But I would add:
"Bidwells Bar is an example of the type of oranges that were most commonly grown in California before the Washington navel orange arrived on the scene. The original Bidwell’s Bar tree was planted in 1856 in Butte County, California and is often called the “Mother Orange Tree.” It is still alive and is believed to be the oldest living orange tree in California."

http://www.alumni.ucr.edu/50th/index_citrus.html

Hey Millet, maybe you can meet Steelviper...he lives there