Alexandria, Virginia.– Today Wooster Geologists Greg Wiles and Nick Wiesenberg visited Gloria and me in our new home in northern Virginia. It was great to see treasured old friends from the department. After lunch we visited a tree in our neighborhood claimed to date back to the days of George Washington.
This chestnut oak (Quercus montana) overnight dropped a large load of its distinctive elongated acorns, which you can see on the ground around the sign.
Could this tree really date back to the 1790s? These Wooster tree experts say … yeah, it’s plausible!
