What is the oldest tree in Azores?
The remarkable trees of the Azores are on São Miguel. In Ponta Delgada, the Jardim António Borges has a Moreton Bay Fig the regional government calls colossal, and a Moreton Bay Fig by the Jardim José do Canto came second in Portugal's Tree of the Year 2026. In Furnas, about 45 minutes away, Parque Terra Nostra's Norfolk Island Pine, the Lady of the Park, is about 200 years old by the park's own figure.
Locally both figs are called Australian rubber trees; botanists know them as Moreton Bay Figs, Ficus macrophylla. The Jardim António Borges was laid out between 1858 and 1861 and belongs to Ponta Delgada's council, and entry is free, but no source dates its fig to the first planting, so its age stays open. The Tree of the Year runner-up drew on more than 18,000 votes nationally; two more Moreton Bay Figs grow inside the José do Canto garden, and nothing on record ties the entry to one trunk, so the pin follows the tree mapped under the contest's name. Terra Nostra's figures of 52 metres and about 200 years are the park's own, published for the same contest, and the pin is the araucaria mapped as A Araucária do Terra Nostra among a ring of them by the thermal pool. The Azores created a regional register of classified trees in 2026, which may settle some of these questions once its list is published.
One of Azores's trees also appears in The Tallest Trees We Have Measured.