Old trees are a treasure to the community and the town or city they've grown.
They're part of history and can be preserved for generations to come. Only few of them are left in the city because development has removed them. This very old Narra Tree can be found at the Opon Plaza, a garden plaza right outside Nuestra Señora Virgen Dela Regla​ in Lapu-lapu City in Mactan Island, Cebu. ​
Planted by Mariano S. Dimataga or Dodong Oping
​​when he became mayor of Opong in 1938. ​ Trees like this one are safe from road widening projects being inside a plaza. But I noticed that there are vines going up some branches and choking the leaves. Somebody has to remove the vines or will kill off the branches. Anyways, big, old trees are natural treasures which bear witnesses to the history of the place ​for as long as they have grown. ​Read more below. ​
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