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The Senator, the 3,500 year old tree
2012
Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida
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A bald cypress that stood here for some three and a half thousand years, one of the oldest trees on earth, seventeen stories tall before a 1925 hurricane took its crown. In January 2012 a woman smoking methamphetamine inside the hollow trunk started the fire that burned it from the inside out. A cloned sapling from its own cuttings, named Phoenix, grows beside the stump.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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