Dueling Cannon Oaks

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Dueling Cannon Oaks

Artist

Catherine Sherman

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Photograph - Photography Painterly

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"Dueling Cannon Oaks, Charles Towne Landing Historic Site, Charleston, South Carolina" by Catherine Sherman.

Two Southern Live Oak trees face off across a path in Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site, a park in Charleston, South Carolina. These oaks, called Dueling Cannon Oaks, grow near an old cannon that was used to fortify the area in the early days of English settlement. The trees have been growing since about 1673.

Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the southeastern United States. Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South. Many very large and old specimens of live oak can be found today in the deep southern United States.

Also common to the southern landscape is Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides), which is an epiphytic flowering plant that often grows upon larger trees in tropical and subtropical climates, native to much of Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Central America, South America, the southern United States, and the West Indies.

Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site sits on a marshy point, located off of the Ashley River, where a group of English settlers landed in 1670 and established what would become the birthplace of the Carolina colony. Charles Towne Landing introduces visitors to the earliest colonial history of Charleston with a museum, living history events and other educational exhibits.

Featured in "Images That Excite You" group (03/21/2017); "The Niche" group (05/14/2017); "Showcasing the South" group (04/01/2021)

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March 21st, 2017

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