Texas Champion Trees: Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine – Davis Mountains Preserve – 15 February 2010
Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine, aka Western Yellow Pine
Pinus ponderosa
Circumference: 134 inches
Height: 110 feet
Crown spread: 46 feet
This Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine located in the Nature Conservancy’s Davis Mountains Preserve of Far West Texas is believed to be the largest known example of its kind left standing in the Lone Star state. It was added to the Texas Big Tree Registry in 2006.
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