The root system is so tall an adult standing beside it looks like a toddler. Some roots are as thick as an elephant’s leg, others as thin as a man’s arm, gnarled, twisted, growing down and across, clipped off.
Despite its appearance, experts say the tree is healthy; a robust root system is likely in the ground behind it.
The only challenge it has faced are small-time vandals who carve their initials or champion their love life, including someone named Joyce who it appears went back when the love dimmed and scratched out the name of her suitor.
Other Heritage Trees are the American Elm, White Oak, Red Oak, and Live Oak on the Horseshoe at the University of South Carolina, Southern Magnolias at Winthrop University and the Bald Cypress Grove at Edisto. Below is another photo of it listed from Furman College.
One of Americas great tree.
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