This tree is a newer member on campus, and it was planted in a special ceremony in 1990 upon the Dalai Lama’s visit to the College. When attending the four-day ecumenical Middlebury Symposium on religion and the environment, the Dalai Lama blessed the tree, and a plaque commemorating the visit lies at the foot of the tree today. It stands in front of Munroe Hall near another older Crimson King. The tree has purple-green leaves most of the year, until its shift to dark maroon or bronze in the fall.
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