The trees were southern live oak. It appears what I saw was a natural form of “ layering ,” whereby a branch touches the ground and produces adventitious roots driven by hypoxia and the hunt ...

More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the southern live oak still embodies the American ideal of individual resilience—a stoic figure standing tall.

Q: I received for Father’s Day a live oak 24-inch box, delivered and installed (I was told it is a Southern live oak, but it wasn’t marked). What care shall ...

One of the Enzian Theater’s iconic Southern live oak trees has died, and the majority of its branches have now been cut down. Though the vigorous efforts to save the tree have fallen short, the ...

Southern live oak is the City of Tallahassee's official shade tree. This native semi-evergreen tree is one of the most majestic trees of the southern United States.

Charles Seabrook’s “Wild Georgia” column appears weekly in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. When I was growing up on Johns Island, S.C., near Charleston, our non-air-conditioned house and ...

Live oak trees typically reach 40 to 65 feet tall with a relatively short stout stem that grows 4 to 6 feet in diameter. The crown can extend 80 to 110 feet in diameter. The canopy is broad in ...

The aptly-named Big Tree Park houses what is believed to be the oldest tree in Orlando, a live oak thought to be 350-400 years old. Stop 5: Big Tree Park Some parks highlight big trees as part of ...

The Seven Sisters Oak, not far from Lake Ponchartrain, is the president of The Live Oak Society. With a circumference of 38 feet, it is one of the largest and oldest live oak trees in the country.