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.

Read more about this topic:  Quercus Virginiana

Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or specimens:

    “Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “A tattered copy of Johnson’s large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to “make up” verses.”
    —Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)