Quercus Virginiana - Famous Specimens

Famous Specimens

• The Seven Sisters Oak is the largest certified southern live oak tree.

• Two named the "Treaty Oak":
  • one in Texas
  • another in Florida.

• The Emancipation Oak, on the campus of Hampton University in Virginia, is listed as one of the "Ten Great Trees of the World" by the National Geographic Society.

• Two approximately 75 year old southern live oaks, located at Toomer's Corner at Auburn University in Alabama, have been at the center of an Auburn Tigers football tradition since the 1950s. They were poisoned by a vandal in February 2011. The Auburn University Tree Preservation Committee said in August 2012 that the trees have a very poor chance of survival, despite extensive efforts to neutralize the toxins.

• The largest live oak tree in Florida, the Cellon Oak, with a circumference 30 feet (9.1 m), a height of 85 feet (25.9 m), and an average crown spread of 160 feet (48.8 m), is the logo of Alachua County, Florida.

• Evangeline Oak in St. Martinville, Louisiana.

• The Angel Oak on St. John's Island near Charleston, South Carolina. The Angel Oak tree is featured prominently in the book, The Locket, by Emily Nelson.

• Friendship Oak is a 500-year-old southern live oak located on the Gulf Park campus of the University of Southern Mississippi in Long Beach, Mississippi.

• The Big Tree, Rockport a 100-year-old southern live oak located in Rockport, Texas, the largest live oak in Texas.