City Park, New Orleans Cypress determined
to be 170-190 years old
The large City Park cypress
behind Grow Dat Youth Farm in City Park New Orleans, adjacent to the Frisbee gulf
course (29.995883 N, 90.091117 W-- see map at previous Blog post) has been determined to be nearly
two hundred years old—not old enough to qualify as a La Purchase Cypress Legacy
tree—but certainly one of the oldest cypress in Orleans Parish. this area of the Park has several older cypress interspersed with large live oaks.
Here are the statistics:
Circumference: 11’11”
1st boring: 8 inches, approx. 78 rings counted
2nd boring: 6.2
inches, approx. 57 rings counted
Projected Age: 170-190 years
old
This could well be the oldest
known cypress in City Park and is currently the oldest known cypress in Orleans
Parish with borings to verify estimated age. (The first commemorated La Purchase Cypress Legacy Tree, located in New Orleans at the residence located at Baronne and Robert Street did not have a boring taken)
“Grandma Tree” in Tickfaw
Park commemorated with La Bicentennial Cypress Legacy Plaque : “Alive in 1812”
photo by Mike Weeks
This plaque, presented to
Tickfaw State Park in 2012 by the LBCL campaign (a 2012 initiative that
supplemented the Louisiana Purchase
Cypress Legacy to recognize cypress trees alive in 1812, the year of Louisiana’s
statehood) , was recently placed at the site of one of the oldest cypress trees in Livingston
Parish. (Boring and estimated age forthcoming.) A boardwalk to the tree is located off the main road through the Park, just past the turnoff to the campsites (see map and coordinates below)
Tickfaw State Park contains several examples of large old cypress, some of which are accessible from the Park's canoe launch, including that shown below.
courtesy of Amy Warner
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