COMMON NAME: Live Oak
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Quercus virginiana
REMARKS:
Fairly common along the southeast coast of the U.S. from North Carolina to Texas.
Acorns, dropped in the fall provide an important food source to many species of animals.
They can live for centuries: the oldest one on Ossabaw Island was estimated to be over 600 years old by the National Geographic Society during their visit to the island in 1934.
It is the state tree of Georgia

	The Ghost Tree
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