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Committee for Con Dao Monuments Requests VACNE to Recognize about 70 Ancient Trees as Vietnam Heritage Trees

21 October 2011 | 02:20:00 PM

VACNE Office has just received documentation for about 70 ancient trees sent by the Committee for Con Dao Monuments (Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province) requesting their recognition as Vietnam Heritage Trees.

 
 
These are the ancient trees at the farthest place to the South of the country being registered by the local authority for recognition as Vietnam Heritage Trees including populations of malabar almond trees (Terminalia catappa), “Bang lang” trees (Lagerstroemia speciosa), “Diep beo” trees (Delonix regia), mango trees, “Thi” trees (Diospyros Decandra) which are more than 100 years old.



The malabar almond trees at former sites of Phu Son and Phu Hai prisons that have been built in the period of French colonization (1908 – 1916) are 10-15 meters high, with trunk diameters of 0.4 to 1.8 meters. Namely, 11 ancient malabar almond trees at Le Duan Street are 20-25 meters high, with trunk diameters of 1.4 to 1.8 meters (with perimeter of 5.7 meters). Next to them are 15 great “Bang lang” trees at Le Van Viet Street about 100 years old, 35 meters high with trunk diameters of nearly 1 meter.  
Besides those trees mentioned above, the Committee for Con Dao Monuments also requested the recognition of a group of 3 wild “Thi” trees at An Son Temple, An Hai Village, where Her Highness Hoang Phi Yen (a concubine of the Lord Nguyen Anh) is  worshipped. These “Thi” trees are 226 years old and are the most ancient and the largest “Thi” trees at Con Dao.
At present, VACNE has received registrations of hundreds of ancient trees from all over the country, of which 113 trees have been approved by the Committee for recognition of Heritage Trees as Vietnam Heritage Trees.
 
  

 

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