Two-Hearted Live Oak Bar

    Approximately 4 and a half feet in diameter.  

    38 inches high 280 pounds.

Cut from a tree in Gautier, Mississippi, in 2022.

Made at HAW Works 2024  by Peter Shillingsburg


Originally two seedlings growing side be side, they joined into one tree in the sixth year, a fact that is determined by the two centers with five individually centered growth rings and a sixth that encircles both hearts.

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