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Fairchild Oak

Live oak - the Fairchild Oak is one of the largest live oak trees in the south of Florida. The tree is 70 feet tall and its limbs stretch out to 300 feet across. The ancient tree is estimated to be 400 to 600 years old. The botanist David Fairchild, whose name is well-known in Florida because of the botanic garden in Coral Gables, admired this tree and, in 1955, it was named after him.

It grows next to Bulow Creek in Bulow Creek State Park, Florida.

 

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Uploaded on November 17, 2019
Taken on November 16, 2019