A local man in Nghe An Province is still awaiting a better bid for his 100-year-old tangerine tree after recently turning down a nearly 7,000 USD bid.

The century-old tangerine tree is pictured in Nghe An Province (Photo: Tuoi Tre)

The fruit-laden tangerine tree, belonging to 35-year-old Anh Tuan, is currently on display at a flower market in Vinh Province to celebrate Tet, or the Vietnamese Lunar New Year.

Tuan said he purchased the ‘marvelous’ mushroom-shaped tree from an ethnic Thai person in Quy Hop District only a few days prior.

“I had to hire local men to take the tree from the remote village to the highway using a carrying pole. It took them two days,” Tuan said.

The tree then traveled another 100km from Quy Hop to Vinh by truck, Tuan added.

The tangerine tree measures 25cm in diameter and stands nearly four meters tall. Hundreds of ready-to-eat fruits hang from the tree’s 3.5 meter long branches.

Bonsai experts say there are very few natural tangerine trees with such a large diameter.

“This morning someone offered to buy my tree for 150 million VND (6,696 USD) but I rejected the offer. I don’t think that’s the best price,” Tuan said proudly.

In Viet Nam, it is common for ‘marvelous’ trees and flowers to be on sale at hefty prices during Tet, which begins on 28 January this year.

In Ho Chi Minh City, some farmers are selling grapefruit trees for 30 million VND (1,339 USD) apiece, while yellow apricot blossom trees, a traditional flower for Tet in southern Viet Nam, that fetch hundreds of millions of dong are not uncommon. (100 million VND = 4,464 USD).

These grapefruit trees cost 30 million VND each.

And these yellow apricot trees fetch at least 100 million VND each.

(Source: Tuoitrenews)