The Camphor of the Zoological and Botanical Gardens

This camphor is held up by hardware. The government's register of old and valuable trees records braces and cables holding it, which tells you that somebody looked at an old tree needing help and decided it was worth the trouble. Under that support is a trunk 1.46 metres across at chest height, in a tree 18 metres tall with a crown 16 metres wide, beside the octagonal pavilion of the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens. The gardens hold several registered trees, and the register is frank about how that goes over time. Two of them, one a Parkia, now carry the word removed against their entries. The camphor was inspected in July 2026 and is recorded alive. The other camphors on this page live very different lives. Three stand in villages in the New Territories and on Lantau, and one, thicker than this, grows beside a playground in Kowloon Park. This is the one in a formal garden, on Albany Road above Central, within walking distance of the offices below. The gardens are free to enter; the aviary and greenhouses may keep shorter hours than the grounds. Nobody has recorded when this tree was planted. If you know, tell us.