This leaf with its elegant and slightly undulating veins is like a monumental contemporary artwork perfectly integrated in its environment, with a reasonable maximum height of 16.5 m, creating a unique attractive and remarkable landmark while respecting the scale of its surroundings; then, as it’s its vocation, by its suggestive shape, it’s both a tribute and a celebration of this environment, the Mekong delta and its vast lands dedicated to agriculture.
It’s the natural and amazing gate of the museum, an invitation for all to enter and discover the richness of a natural heritage and the way, generations after generations, the local population by a relentless work made of it a cultural and national treasure which amply deserves to be highlighted.