Rockport Plants
THE BIG TREE
of Lamar, Texas It may be the largest & oldest Live Oak in the World an estimated 2,000 years old!
LIVE OAK TREE
(sp. Quericus virginiana)
TOP: Live Oak
Flowers
&
BOTTOM: Acorns
The Southern Live Oak is an Evergreen tree, like a Pine - stays green all
year long. They can grow as tall as 80
feet. Many or our more prized Live
Oak Trees here in Rockport are over
600 years old, and they make the best
shade trees.
LORE: In early Colonial
America, timber from the
Live Oak was used for
the structural and curved
wood that was needed for
Sailing Ships because of
its hardness and resistance to rot.
LORE: Our very own, ‘Big Tree’ of
Lamar is 45 feet tall and spreads out
at its crown for around 90 feet.
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