What is the oldest tree in Ora?

The tree was designated a National Natural Monument in 1937, an unusually high protection tier for an osmanthus, which is normally given to giant conifers or camphors instead. A typhoon in 1966 felled the original 16 metre tree, and what stands today regrew from its stump. Two sources disagree on how tall the regrowth now stands, one giving 7 metres and another 5, most likely reflecting different survey years rather than a real dispute; the recorded girth of 3.3 metres and crown spread of 18 by 14 metres describe the original pre-1966 trunk, not the current regrowth. Its age is similarly unsettled: Ora's own town page gives 750 years with no stated basis, while the national tourism federation instead dates it to the year 1331, which works out to roughly 695 years. Both agree on the shape of the answer, several centuries and likely past 700 years, and neither figure is sharpened into false precision here. What is not in doubt is that it still flowers: the town's education board keeps a photographed record of its bloom every autumn, late September into early October, including years with a rare second flowering. Free to visit, on open temple grounds.