Evening under the live oaks
Quercus virginiana
Southern Live Oak · Savannah · 16 February 2025
The canopy from ground level, park benches and a gas lamp underneath it.
Live oaks like these are what Savannah's squares were designed and planted around from the city's founding, and most of what stands now is well over a century old. The name means evergreen - the tree holds its leaves through winter and drops them in spring as the new ones come - and the timber was the frame of the USS Constitution, hard enough that cannonballs bounced off it.
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