Oak Alley at Boone Hall Plantation, a shaded tunnel of huge old southern live oak trees, Charleston, South Carolina. Plantation owners planted long palisades of Southern Live Oaks to provide a shaded, cool allee (from the French) on which they could stroll, entertain and find diversion from the intense heat of the South.
Species:
Southern live oak,
Quercus virginiana
Location:
Boone Hall Plantation,
Charleston,
South Carolina
Image ID:
37394