Welcher ist der älteste Baum in Fort Lauderdale?
No tree on this page has a documented age, and that is the honest answer rather than a gap being hidden: the Florida Champion Tree Register ranks trees on trunk girth, height and crown spread scored into points, not years, and none of Flamingo Gardens' champions carries a recorded planting date. The biggest trunk measured is the Earpod Tree of Flamingo Gardens, just over six metres round, which makes it the largest rather than provably the oldest, since a tropical hardwood can put on real girth within a few decades. Flamingo Gardens itself has existed as a botanical collection since 1927, which sets a rough ceiling on how long any planted specimen here has had to grow.
The trees on this page come from the Florida Forest Service's Champion Tree Register, which crowns one champion per species statewide on a points formula combining trunk circumference, height and a quarter of the average crown spread. It measures size, not years, and comparing girths across species says nothing about age: a tropical hardwood can put on in a few decades what a slow-growing oak needs a century to build. All four champions here stand at Flamingo Gardens, a private 60-acre botanical garden and wildlife sanctuary in Davie that has assembled Florida's densest concentration of state-record trees, more than twenty in total, since the property was first planted as the Wray family homestead in 1927. The largest by circumference is the Earpod Tree, just over six metres round; the tallest is the Sandbox Tree, at roughly 31 metres. None of the four carries a documented planting date in the register or anywhere else found so far. Flamingo Gardens' own horticultural records, if they specify when any of these went into the ground, would settle it, and a reader who knows should tell us.
Wenn Sie in Fort Lauderdale einen älteren Baum kennen oder hier einen Fehler sehen, sagen Sie es uns und wir korrigieren es.
Hier stimmt etwas nichtNoch einen Baum vorschlagen