Common Name: longleaf pine Circumference: 107
Species: Height: 98
Scientific Name: Pinus palustris Crown: 41
Native/Naturalized: Native to Virginia Points: 215
Status: alive Last Measured: 2022
National Champion: no Last Measured by: Byron Carmean, Eric Wiseman, Moriah Moss
Comments:
2022 update: Located within a now 10-year-old pine plantation. Tree has no real dominant leader; its top is flattened out. Has a slight lean and what appear to be 3 timber felling scars (from when previous pine stand was harvested). Trunk circumference measured 4.5 feet above flat ground away from edge of heaving root plate.
2019 update: Declared national champ in 2017, but was dethroned in 2019 by larger tree in South Carolina. The tree appears healthy and sound. It exists because it is a line tree, next to a cut-over. Lightning could be a threat.
2012 measurements by Byron Carmean, Gary Williamson, Bobby Clontz, Kea Turner: circumference 103", height 101', crown 44', points 215.

More Photos

Top: Gary Williamson December 2012. Bottom 3: E. Wiseman 06/30/2022
Location of Tree
Tree is located in: City of Suffolk Land Owner: James D. Wright
GPS Coordinates: 36.710544, -76.806401 Owner Email:
Directions:
At rear of farm owned by James D. Wright. Adjacent property owned by Walter H. Johnson. No visitors allowed without permission. Best access is by farm road that departs Old Myrtle Road just east of Carrsville Highway overpass. From Old Myrtle Rd, take gravel road parallel to railroad tracks, cross tracks on same road, and enter property. Continue straight and pass between two barns as the road curves left. Continue on until the road runs out into grass near a small barn. (Tree is visible from here directly parallel to the road across a field but may be hidden from view by an oak). Walk straight back to tree line and gate. Follow bushhogged path (take the right path whenever there is a fork) to the south and follow signs to longleaf pine.

Owner Address:
Private

 Owner Phone: Private
Contact Information
Contact Name: Byron Carmean Permission to Advertise: Yes
Contact Email: rockplantrn@gmail.com Contact Address:
3616 Labrador Ln
Suffolk, VA 23434
Contact Phone: 757-934-0588
 
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Nominators
Original Nominator(s): Byron Carmean and Gary Williamson
Other Nominators: