Getting to this banyan means leaving Hong Kong Island by boat. It stands on Chung Hau Street in Mui Wo, a village on Lantau Island reached by ferry from Central's Pier 6, and its crown is wider than the tree is tall: 22 metres high, 28 metres across, over a street rather than a park lawn. The government's register of old and valuable trees files it under the Islands district, and gives it a trunk 1.43 metres across at chest height. It is an Indian laurel fig, the same species as the King Banyan in Kowloon Park and the roadside banyans of Garden Road. The difference is the setting. Those trees share their ground with other registered giants; this one has a village street to itself, and the nearest other tree on the register is some 350 metres away. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department looks after it as a street tree, and its last inspection, in April 2026, recorded it alive. It costs nothing to see: walk off the ferry into Mui Wo and find Chung Hau Street. Nobody has written down how old it is. If you know its age, or what the street was like when it was young, tell us.
Chung Hau Street, Mui Wo, Lantau IslandYou can recognise it by its crown, 28 metres across and wider than the tree is tall, over Chung Hau Street. It stands in Mui Wo village, the only registered old tree within about 350 metres.
Free. Street tree on Chung Hau Street in Mui Wo village.
Ferry from Central Pier 6 to Mui Wo (ferry duration not verified this pass), then a short walk into Chung Hau.
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