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Old 12-12-2019, 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Rosebud2020
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So here you are with an oak tree that was improperly planted. Yes -- improperly planted. Live Oaks at maturity are 50 ft. in diameter and 50 ft. tall. It never should have been planted where it would grow into/onto your property.
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Originally Posted by Rapscallion St Croix View Post
Whoa! That is a huge exaggeration.
Not at all. You are misunderstanding his use of diameter. He doesn't mean the trunk, he means the spread of the tree. Arborday.org says

Grows 40'-80', with an 80' spread. So if anything Rosebud was under-stating the horizontal potential nuisance of this tree.
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