<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The <strong>Live Oaks</strong> (<em>Quercus virginiana</em>) are found in all American south-east. In general, these trees are not particularly high but they can have a huge crown which can sproud sometimes very far, that gives them a great majesty. Only the oldest have massive branches which fall down on the ground to open out there and sometimes take root. These Live Oaks owe their name to their capacity of resistance against the intense storms of the southern coasts of the United States. They remain the symbol of the Old South like are the cotton plantations in <strong>Louisiana </strong>where we find besides ancestral oaks like this of <strong>Mandeville</strong>, the <strong>Dobby Seven Sister Live Oak</strong>, close to the lake Pontchartrain. Old of more than <strong>thirteen hundred years</strong>, it deploys its branches on the ground, such of the tentacles of giant octopus.</span></p>