Treaty Tree, Historical milkwood tree in Woodstock, South Africa

The Treaty Tree is a white milkwood tree on Treaty Road in Woodstock, Cape Town, south of the railway line. It is a 500-year-old specimen of the species, and the City of Cape Town owns the property on which it stands.

Peace was concluded under this white milkwood on 10 January 1806 after the Battle of Blaauwberg, beginning the second British occupation of the Cape and leading to the Cape Colony becoming a permanent British possession. The tree had stood in the landscape since at least the early 1500s, before the Dutch arrived. Until 1834, slaves were sold and convicts hanged beneath it.

The tree's name comes from the peace signed beneath it on 10 January 1806, after the Battle of Blaauwberg. In Afrikaans it is called Verdragboom or Traktaatboom. Until 1834, slaves were sold and convicts hanged under it, a use that marked the site long before it was declared a monument in 1967.

The tree stands on Treaty Road, next to Spring Street and south of the railway line in Woodstock. The City of Cape Town owns the plot, so the tree can be viewed from the public road at any time; there is no gate or entrance fee.

The 1510 Battle of Salt River, in which Khoikhoi fighters killed 64 Portuguese sailors and their commander Dom Francisco de Almeida, took place close to the tree, before any Dutch settlement. The tree was already part of the local landscape in the early 1500s.