Big oak tree

The Angel Oak tree in Charleston, South Carolina is thought to be one of the oldest living organisms east of the Mississippi River. It stands 65 feet tall, is 28 ft in circumference, and an area of 17,000 square feet is shaded by it's branches. The largest branch reaches 187 feet long.With an estimated 1,500 years in age, this Southern live oak has survived a number of hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. It was damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 but recovered and continues to grow. Canon 5 D…

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The Angel Oak is thought to be one of the oldest living things east of the Mississippi River. Acorns from the Angel Oak have grown to produce authentic direct-offspring trees.. Live oaks generally grow out and not up, but the Angel Oak has had plenty of time to do both, standing 65 ft high and with a canopy providing 17,000 square feet of shade. Its limbs, the size of tree trunks themselves, are so large and heavy that some of them rest on the ground (some even drop underground for a few…

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We had a huge California oak tree in our front yard it was an amazing Climbing tree. To get up there and see the whole town was awesome.