Oak
Quercus · Trees - Deciduous
Oak
New York Botanical Garden, 16 May 2021
Mid-May, with the leaves not yet full size and the whole architecture of the tree still readable through them.
The heavy horizontal limbs are what an oak does when it grows in the open. In a forest it would run straight up competing for light; standing alone it spends its growth going outwards instead, which is why an open-grown oak ends up wider than it is tall.
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