When I recently wrote in my other blog [Pit’s Fritztown News] about trying to raise new oaks in our garden, I was reminded of one of the most spectacular specimens of a Southern Live Oak [Quercus Virginiana], „The Big Tree“ in Goose Island State Park at the Texas Gulf Coast near Rockport/Fulton. Here it is:
The vital statistics of that magnificent tree:
- Trunk circumference: 35 feet 1.75 inches or 10.71 meters
- Average trunk diameter: 11 feet 2.25 inches or 3.41 meters
- Crown spread: 89 feet or 27.1 meters
- Height: 44 feet or 13.4 meters
- Age: In excess of 1,000 years
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