The 150-Year-Old Cairo Tree
If this Cairo Tower Tree could talk, it would have plenty to say. In 1868, Isma’il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and conqueror of Sudan ordered that the tree be brought from India and placed in Cairo. The tree is also known as the Zamalek tree and it is the only banyan tree left in the city. And for over 150 years, it has withstood the test of time and has remained the only constant object among its ever-changing surroundings.