Freetown’s city structure sprung from the Cotton Tree’s central position, and the tree became a national icon that appeared on bank notes, featured in lullabies and was a stop for royalty.

FREETOWN, May 25 (Reuters) - A giant tree that towered over Sierra Leone's capital for centuries and symbolised freedom to its early residents crashed down overnight during a heavy rainstorm ...

Centuries-old cotton tree, national symbol for decades, felled by storm in Sierra Leone Storm Wednesday evening in the capital, Freetown, destroyed all but the stump of the iconic tree Associated ...

A centuries-old, towering tree that served as a historic symbol in Sierra Leone has been felled during a wind and rain storm in the capital Freetown, the government said on Thursday.

In the days after the felling of the huge cotton tree, the symbol of capital city Freetown, Sierra Leoneans gathered to stand by the remaining stump, express their shock, and pay their respects ...

A towering cotton tree which has stood for several hundred years in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, has been brought down by a heavy storm.

The historic Cotton Tree in Freetown will join almost 400 iconic attractions worldwide turning green to celebrate St. Patrick's Day for the first time in 2019. Tourism Ireland's Global Greening ...

Standing below a stump of splintered limbs, I looked up at a grey sky once filled with flourishing boughs. Torn down by a heavy storm in May 2023, Freetown’s historic 400-year-old Cotton Tree is ...

“The Cotton Tree was the spine that held up Freetown and Sierra Leone,” said Raymond DeSouza George, a local historian, in a Globe and Mail interview.