The Hollow Pecan
You need a ticket to see this treePaid entry. Inside the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, in the Rock Springs area; the garden charges general admission and keeps set opening hours.
By the city's own estimate this pecan is more than 200 years old, and Fort Worth's heritage register counts its visitors in layers. Native Americans came first. Then traders, before there were settlers to trade with. Then the pioneering families who built the town, and after them the tens of thousands who have walked through the Botanic Garden since. It grows in the Rock Springs area of the garden, where the jujube that holds the Texas record for its species stands a couple of hundred metres away, so one ticket covers two listed trees. The name is the register's, and it does not explain it, so we will not describe a hollow we have not seen. What the register does give is the estimate, and it is an honest one: over 200 years, with no upper figure and no measurement behind it that we know of. If you have taped the trunk, or know where the estimate came from, tell us.
Rock Springs area, Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Fort Worth, TXYou can recognise it as the big old pecan in the Rock Springs area of the Botanic Garden. It stands about 200 metres south of the garden's champion jujube.
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