By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon
CJ Travel Editor
Is this France’s Tree Of the Year? The owners of Martinique’s Habitation Cèron (and likely the entire population of the French-Caribbean island) think so.
And they hope you will, too.
That’s because the 300-year-old Zamana tree, on the grounds of the 17th-century sugarcane estate in Le Prêcheur, is a nominee for France’s fifth annual Arbre De L’Année (Tree of the Year) competition. A single tree is nominated in each French region, and Habitation’s Ceron magnificent specimen, which has an eight-foot-diameter trunk, is Martinique’s entry.
All the nominees are listed on the competition website, abredelannee.com, and the public can vote for their favorite tree from now through August 31.
To complement the competition, Habitation Ceron is also running a Facebook photo competition, and will award a prize every 10 days for the best picture of the Zamana tree. Go to their page, Facebook.com/HabitationCeron, for more details.