I share travel posts, so when you venture to new places with your families, you will linger, learn, and appreciate these natural treasures.

Watch a movie about the South, and you are sure to see the hurricane resistant live oaks. When my husband and I stayed in Beaufort, South Carolina, stately live oak trees lined the streets. They were often draped with Spanish moss which I blogged about previously. Live oaks are prized trees in the Southeastern United States and grow to massive proportions. Like all oaks, they produce acorns, but unlike other oaks, their leaves are evergreen. Live oak is the state tree of Georgia.

Click here to view full screen. Learn how live oaks were used in ship building.

Our tour guide explained that permission must be granted to trim the large limbs off of a live oak. In the photo below, the street was cut around the live oak tree.