Size is why this pecan made Fort Worth's heritage register. It stands more than 85 feet tall, about 26 metres, and its trunk is more than 160 inches round, which is over four metres. The register gives its age as 150 years or more and singles out its shape as well. Put those numbers beside the Turner Oak, the city's oldest dated tree, and the pecan holds its own: a trunk of roughly the same girth, on a tree about twice as tall. Where the oak spreads, the pecan climbs. That is the whole of the record. It grows in Quanah Parker Park on the east side of the city, a long way from the other trees on this page, and the register says nothing about who planted it or what it has stood through, so neither will we. A tree that size is easy enough to find once you are in the park. If you know its story, or when it went in, tell us.
Quanah Parker Park, Fort Worth, TXYou can recognise it by its size, more than 26 metres tall with a trunk over four metres round. It stands in Quanah Parker Park, on the east side of Fort Worth.
Free. In Quanah Parker Park, public park ground.
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