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ashling

(25,771 posts) Mon Oct 15, 2012, 04:20 PM Oct 2012

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1500 year old Live Oak

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1500 year old Live Oak (Original Post) ashling Oct 2012 OP

Nice. Is that in Santa Barbara? Duer 157099 Oct 2012 #1

Charleston SC ashling Oct 2012 #4

Ashling. What a glorious picture! Baitball Blogger Oct 2012 #2

Wiki warrior1 Oct 2012 #3

Wow. It has been alive for one-quarter of the age of the world. Liberal Veteran Oct 2012 #5

Lol n/t Helen Reddy Oct 2012 #8

The big tree in Rockport, TX, another old live oak hobbit709 Oct 2012 #6

Fantastic! Helen Reddy Oct 2012 #7

Got a friend with a very similar tree. Hosting a wedding under it Saturday. trof Oct 2012 #9

How is a tree like that dated? trof Oct 2012 #10

Use a boring tool lunatica Oct 2012 #12

Ha! Thanks. trof Oct 2012 #13

Some developer is no doubt salivating over what he can build there after he chops it down Populist_Prole Oct 2012 #11

Wow. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #14

There is really old oak tree in the next block, I bet it is at least 500 years old. texanwitch Oct 2012 #15

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)

1. Nice. Is that in Santa Barbara?

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 04:23 PM

Oct 2012

It looks like one there, but the surroundings don't look the same.

ashling

(25,771 posts)

4. Charleston SC

Reply to Duer 157099 (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 05:01 PM

Oct 2012

Angel Oak - When the Heuganot part of my ancestors got here in the early 1700s they lived in Charleston. This was there then.

Baitball Blogger

(46,705 posts)

2. Ashling. What a glorious picture!

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 04:23 PM

Oct 2012

warrior1

(12,325 posts)

3. Wiki

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 04:28 PM

Oct 2012

says that it's between 300 to 1500 years old. It sure is beautiful. It's call the Angel Oak.

Liberal Veteran

(22,239 posts)

5. Wow. It has been alive for one-quarter of the age of the world.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 05:15 PM

Oct 2012

Lovely picture.

Helen Reddy

(998 posts)

8. Lol n/t

Reply to Liberal Veteran (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 05:33 PM

Oct 2012

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

6. The big tree in Rockport, TX, another old live oak

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 05:23 PM

Oct 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Tree,_Rockport

Helen Reddy

(998 posts)

7. Fantastic!

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 05:32 PM

Oct 2012

Thank you for sharing this regal tree!

trof

(54,256 posts)

9. Got a friend with a very similar tree. Hosting a wedding under it Saturday.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 05:42 PM

Oct 2012

He's in the timber business and KNOWS trees. Says this one was probably there when Columbus 'discovered' America.
Wow.
If trees could only talk.

trof

(54,256 posts)

10. How is a tree like that dated?

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 05:43 PM

Oct 2012

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

12. Use a boring tool

Reply to trof (Reply #10)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:03 PM

Oct 2012

Drill a boring tool into the core of the tree to tell its age. A boring tool is a T-shaped tool with a long, thin hollow plug that drills into the tree to take a sample of the core. Scientists count the rings on the sample to determine the age of the tree and then cover the hole to keep the tree alive.

There are other ways too.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2085320_tell-age-tree.html

trof

(54,256 posts)

13. Ha! Thanks.

Reply to lunatica (Reply #12)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:29 PM

Oct 2012

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)

11. Some developer is no doubt salivating over what he can build there after he chops it down

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 05:46 PM

Oct 2012

Or what they can do with the wood.

To some COC growth at all costs crowd, a tree like that shows an arrogant nature in need of taming.

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

14. Wow.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:30 PM

Oct 2012

texanwitch

(18,705 posts)

15. There is really old oak tree in the next block, I bet it is at least 500 years old.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:37 PM

Oct 2012

The house is for sale, the tree will be cut down for townhouses.

Several old large oak trees have been cut down in the neighborhood for townhouses.

It is a shame.

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