Giant oak tree

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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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The giant live oak tree in Washington Oaks Gardens State Park is estimated to be 200 to 300 years old and creates a dreamy spot for photos for any occasion.

This is Angel Oak outside Charleston SC. The oldest tree east of the Mississippi River

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The glacial period that lasted some 100,000 years and ended around 10,500 BCE layered much of Europe in ice. When at last the ice retreated, sea levels rose dramatically and the land began to be re…