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Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree (Quercus lobata) in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell , whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker .
It was also registered in 1958 as California Historical Landmark No. 637. [8] In 1976, the adobe along with the nearby "Oak of Peace" were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [9] The property is now owned by the City of Glendale and is operated as a historic park. [10] [11]
Casitas Vista Road at the east end of Foster Park Bridge: Ventura: 7/77: Two large sandstone lions erected 1908 at entrance to Foster Park, a county park 35: W. L. Hardison House: 1226 Ojai Rd. Santa Paula: 12/77: Victorian era, California eclectic farmhouse built in 1884 [23] [24] 36: Union Oil Company Building: 1003 E. Main St. Santa Paula: 12/77
An Inland Empire city has approved a development project 450 feet away from the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, shrub-like oak tree that is more than 13,000 years old.
The Jurupa Oak, or Hurungna Oak, [1] [2] is a clonal colony of Quercus palmeri (Palmer's oak) trees in the Jurupa Mountains in Crestmore Heights, Riverside County, California. The colony has survived an estimated 13,000 years through clonal reproduction, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] making it one of the world's oldest living trees . [ 5 ]
California's oldest tree, a Palmer's oak thought to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, ... if the city of Jurupa Valley approves a developer's proposal. ... California's mountains are too warm for ...
Large oak tree under which terms of surrender (later formalized in the Treaty of Cahuenga) for the Mexican–American War in Alta California were discussed in 1847 between Californio leader Andrés Pico and his brother Pío Pico (serving as an envoy for John C. Frémont); the tree died from root rot in 1987 but remnants remain [7] [8] 3
Four oak species are native to Thousand Oaks: valley oak, coast live oak, scrub oak, and Palmer's oak. [110] The city's largest oak has a trunk of 12 ft. in diameter and is located at Chumash Indian Museum. Thousand Oaks has the designation "Tree City USA" and has received the Trail Town USA Hall of Fame award. [111] [112]