The Major Oak is a Quercus Robur, the English or pendunculate oak and in a 2002 survey was voed Britain's favourite tree. Local legend suggests that Robin Hood and his men used its hollow trunk as ...

There’s a forest worth of Charter Oak descendants scattered throughout Connecticut. We pass them daily, unaware. The ancient tree was perhaps a thousand years old with a hollow trunk in which 27 ...

The tree is believed to be between 350 and 400 years old. It has survived lightning strikes before and terrible wind storms that toppled another huge bur oak nearby several years ago.

Hans Wilhelm von Thummel, a minister in the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenberg, was buried among its roots without a coffin by his own request in 1824, and the hollow trunk of the tree was made into a ...