Hi Tom,
    The Live Oak here in California, especially in the Big Sur area, are
anything but diminuitive. The next time you're out this way I can show you
several that are more than 500 years old standing up to 80 feet high with
trunks 4 feet in diameter. The spread of its branches can be more than twice
that of its heigth and during a hike through the Ventana wilderness south of
Monterey, its ever present shade is a delight in the hot afternoon.

                                              Eric Sand
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brandt [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 2:03 PM
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> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] Friday Humo(u)r - Trivia
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> At 04:42 PM 07/21/00, Garo K Akcelik wrote:
> ><snip> don't forget poison oak. </snip>
>
> Which isn't an oak at all, but a shrub.  (Actually, it is hard to consider
> the diminuitive live oak a real oak when compared to the towering red oak
> trees around where I live in Michigan).
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> Tom Brandt
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