Common Name: white oak
Scientific Name: Quercus alba
Category: Community tree
Comments: This is a legendary tree. From the Roanoke Times, December 2005: Not long after the centuries-old white oak tree in the middle of Carolina Avenue in South Roanoke collapsed on Aug. 27, Roanokers wanted to know if a tree would be replanted in the same spot. They sent e-mails to the city's Parks and Recreation Department. They made phone calls. Ultimately, the decision was made to plant another white oak in the same spot. Dan Henry, Roanoke's urban forester, said plans are in the works to put a traffic island -- a concrete planter measuring 6 feet by 40 feet -- at the site of the fallen tree. Henry said those dimensions were chosen to provide "enough soil volume to supplement the root growth of a shade tree." Billy Crigger, of Willow Springs Tree Farm in Radford, saw the television news coverage about the fallen tree. He called Henry's office and offered a replacement from his farm. The key, Crigger said, will be to find a tree whose "limbs go up and branch over the road," making the
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Nominator: Harold H Speed, Jr.
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County/City: Roanoke