Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reports that a ceremony to announce the recognition was held at the provincial museum on Thursday.
They include six trees and tree clumps in the campus of the provincial museum; a banian tree in Long Ho Citadel relic site in Vinh Long city; a hopea tree at Ba Pho Pagoda in Tam Binh district; a crape myrtle on provincial road 909 in Tam Binh district, and a hopea tree clump at the national historical and cultural relic site of Van Thanh Temple in Vinh Long city.
They are aged from 72 to 416 years.
According to the provincial conservation board of cultural and historical trees, the trees are connected with the province’s historical figures or events.
The recognition aims to honour historical values and raise public awareness of the importance of relic trees and the need to protect and conserve them.