The branches are too heavy for the tree now, so they rest on wooden crutches.
Southern Live Oak
Southern live oak belongs to the humid coastal South, hung with Spanish moss and rarely far from salt air, which makes the mapped specimens here a study in the tree leaving home. This page maps every southern live oak on the site, 10 so far across 4 cities.
One grows on a university mall in the Mojave desert, the state's largest recorded, ignoring every rule about its native range. Three stand in Dallas: two in Dealey Plaza, where the branches over Elm Street framed the shots fired at President Kennedy in 1963 and have stood over that ground ever since, and a stand of nineteen at Ferris Plaza that a mayor and a preservation coalition saved from removal in 1998 to keep a roost of grackles from being disturbed. None of these are the wild, low, shading giants of a Georgia churchyard. They are the species doing its ordinary trick, holding a canopy through drought and heat, in cities that happen to remember why it mattered.
New Orleans
Victor Anseman was a florist who retired and then gave the last fifteen years of his life to a park.
Between 1834 and 1844 there were stretches when scarcely a day passed without a duel being fought under these trees.
Eleven metres round, eighteen tall, and a crown reaching close to fifty metres across, which means the limbs left the trunk, ran horizontally as far as they could, and then came back down to the gr...
Dallas
The shots fired at President Kennedy on 22 November 1963 passed through this canopy.
The grassy knoll is a slope with oaks on it, which is the part the photographs never quite show.
In 1998 the city and the corporation across the street proposed removing 21 mature live oaks from this plaza, by most accounts to move a roost of grackles along with them.
Houston
Herman Strack landed at Galveston in 1848, a blacksmith out of Prussia and the first of five brothers to settle north Harris County.
The crown is the thing.
Las Vegas
Nevada's champion live oak is a campus shade tree.
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