Don-
While fitting appropriately in the category of 'big trees', would these two images of the "Charleville Oak" near the grounds of the Charleville Castle in Ireland be helpful, or of general interest? For scale, I'm 6-3, my better half Rhonda is 5-4
-Don

King Oak Charleville

King Oak Charleville

James, Don and Larry,

Most of the Charleville oaks are Quercus robur. The most famous is known as
the King Oak, wich has a crown-spread of over 50 metre / 165 feet, 19 m tall
and a girth of 8,16 m / 27 feet. The King Oak is in the famous book of
Thomas Pakenham: Meetings with remarkable trees. Two of the other oaks of
Charleville are a bit bigger, but do not have such large crowns.
In England there are quite a few oaks from both species wich have a bigger
cbh, several are between 11 and 14 metre cbh. Of these the longest trunk and
healtiest crown has Majesty, the Fredville Oak in Nonington, Kent,
south-east England near Dover and Canterbury (Q.robur). It measures 12,2 m /
40 feet cbh, 19 m / 62 feet tall.  In most NW and middle European countrees
Q.robur is more common than Q.petraea, but they are very near related and
hybridise quite often.

Sequia sempervirens is doing rather well in Ireland and the UK, although not
as good as Sequiadendron giganteum and also not as good as in New Zealand.

Jeroen

PS: I hope the photos are included in the way Edward wants them!

Fredville Oak Majesty2006