The Monterey cypress tree that inspired Dr. Seuss’ classic The Lorax has fallen over. Located in the Southern California city’s La Jolla neighborhood, the tree stood for nearly 100 years ...

The answer — at least for the fabled “Lorax Tree” in La Jolla’s Scripps Park — is down. The 100-foot Monterey cypress toppled at 7 a.m. Thursday, June 13.

In Dr. Seuss' book, the small, orange Lorax appears from a stump of a felled tree in the Truffula forest to try to stop the greedy Once-ler from cutting down all the trees and profiting from them.

In 2012, viewers were whisked away to a Seussian dystopia in Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures’ The Lorax. Based on the Dr. Seuss story of the same name – and overflowing with ...

A decades-old tree in California that is believed to have inspired the children's book The Lorax has toppled. The Monterey Cypress in Ellen Browning Scripps Park, San Diego, fell on Thursday, Fox ...

Now, the tree that locals say inspired "The Lorax" is gone forever, and why it's gone is a mystery, Tim Graham, a spokesman for the San Diego Parks and Recreation Department, told USA TODAY.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A century-old tree with a long trunk and bushy branches that some believe was the inspiration for fictional Truffula trees in Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" has fallen in a coastal San ...