What is the oldest tree in Hanoi?
Two of Hanoi's notable trees are the last surviving muom, a wild mango, at Voi Phuc Temple on Kim Ma street, part of the group that received Vietnam's first Heritage Tree recognition in 2010, and the bodhi tree at Tran Quoc Pagoda on West Lake, planted on 24 March 1959 by Rajendra Prasad, President of India.
The Vietnam Heritage Tree title is given by VACNE, the national nature association, and has been awarded since 2010. The nine muom at Voi Phuc were put at about 700 years, the age of the temple, without a stated basis. By 2014 only four were alive, and by 2021 the press reported one, a count repeated in 2025; no source says which trunk survives, so the pin marks the temple. It opens daily from 08:00 to 20:00 by its map listing. The bodhi at Tran Quoc was a cutting from the tree at Bodh Gaya, given in return for a tree Ho Chi Minh had given India, and Hanoi calls it the diplomacy tree. Its planting is one of the few recorded dates on this map, though no source says where in the grounds it stands. The pagoda is free, open daily from 08:00 to 16:00, with a city bus stop at the gate on Thanh Nien road. Many more recognised heritage trees stand in villages 20 to 40 kilometres outside the city.
One of Hanoi's trees also appears in The Oldest Tree in Every City We Map.