Qual é a árvore mais antiga de Oahu?

Oahu's oldest documented tree is the Hillebrand Kapok in Foster Botanical Garden, planted around 1851 by the garden's founder, William Hillebrand, on what was then his own homestead. That makes it roughly 175 years old, older than the garden itself.

Foster Botanical Garden holds seven of the twenty-one trees on this page, and its own founding is younger than its oldest tree. William Hillebrand planted a kapok on his Honolulu homestead around 1851, decades before it became a public garden; it now stands about 27 metres tall with a trunk somewhere between four and seven metres around, the two sources disagreeing. Two more carry documented dates: a Bodhi tree of the Bodh Gaya lineage, given to Mary Foster in 1913, and a baobab planted in the 1930s, thirteen metres round. Fourteen more trees stand elsewhere, nearly all free: banyans at Thomas Square, the Honolulu Zoo gate, Iolani Palace, the Moana hotel's beachfront courtyard and the Kuhio Beach hula mound; the banyan the International Market Place rebuilt its steel canopy around rather than fell; the Geometry Tree of Ala Moana Beach Park; a monkeypod in Nuuanu Valley Park; a baobab, a cannonball tree and a tree that smells of dung once a year at UH Manoa; and a baobab and a pink bombax at Queen's Medical Center. The Hitachi Tree, famous across Japan as a company emblem, is the one paid exception, at Moanalua Gardens.

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