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Washington State Capitol Moon Tree

While the Douglas fir is one of the most common evergreens in Washington, this particular tree has a unique history. During the Apollo moon missions between 1969 and 1972, Douglas fir seedlings were transported to the moon for each of the 50 states. The Washington state 'moon tree' was planted as a seedling on the Capitol campus at its location on Capitol Way, near Tivoli fountain. It's a very full and beautifully formed tree that has a place of honor on the campus, reminding visitors of the Apollo missions to the moon.
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University of the South Moon Tree

Sycamore (platanus occidentalis) planted at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. The seedling was received by Charles Cheston (head of the Forestry Department) and members of the Forestry Club on April 7, 1976.
Photograph courtesy of Joseph Burckle
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Washington Square Moon Tree

Sycamore (platanus occidentalis) planted 6 May 1975 in Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was the first official Moon Tree planted to celebrate the nation's bicentennial. Located at Walnut Street & Independence Mall West.
Photo courtesy of Christopher Palmer
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King of Prussia Moon Tree

The Moon Tree in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania is planted at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility on Goddard Blvd. Located by the cafeteria, the sycamore (platanus occidentalis) was planted on June 30, 1976 as part of the Bicentennial celebration at what was then the Valley Forge Space Technology Center of the General Electric Space Division. Nearby is a tulip poplar grown from a seed taken from a tree planted by George Washington at Mount Vernon.
Photo courtesy of Lynn Black
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Highland Hall Moon Tree

This Moon sycamore tree (platanus occidentalis) is located in Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania. The tree was planted on 5 May 1976 at Highland Hall, 517 Walnut Street, at the corner of Walnut and Penn Streets. Highland Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and until recently served as the court house annex. Near the tree is a statue of a "Pioneer Family".
Photograph courtesy of Jim Shoemaker
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Cambria County Courthouse Moon Tree

Sycamore (platanus occidentalis) planted 29 June 1976 on the grounds of the Cambria County Courthouse in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
Photo courtesy of Tom Witt, Vernon, CT
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Oregon State Capitol Moon Tree

This Moon Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga Menziesii) located at the State Capitol Building in Salem, Oregon. The tree is located about 460 feet to the right (while looking into the building from the outside)(West-Northwest) of the main front entrance to the Capitol Building. The tree has been designated as an Oregon Heritage Tree. A dedication ceremony was held on 11 April 2003.
Photograph courtesy of Robert Barton
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Peavy Hall Moon Tree

This healthy Douglas-fir is one of the moon seedlings planted across the United States in 1976. Forestry Extension agents are used to fielding odd requests, but this one had Scott Leavengood stumped. A man in Phoenix, Arizona, named Michael Simon had heard there was a "moon tree" growing somewhere on the grounds of the OSU College of Forestry. Could he get cuttings?
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U.S. Veteran's Medical Center Moon Tree

This Douglas Fir was planted on 3 May 1976 on the grounds of the U.S. Veterans Medical Center in Roseburg, Oregon by State Forester J. E. Schroeder and Director J. H. Ferry. The plaque reads: This tree dedicated by the Veterans Administration in 1976 to America's Medal of Honor recipients who helped make this bicentennial observance possible "By gallantry above and beyond the call of duty"
Photograph courtesy of Glen and Martha Jones
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Friendship Park Moon Tree

A Moon Tree is flourishing in eastern Ohio near Steubenville. The sycamore (platanus occidentalis) was planted in Friendship Park in Jefferson County, Ohio, located between the towns of Smithfield and Bloomingdale. The tree was dedicated in a ceremony on July 29, 1976 (the county's anniversary) and moved to a nursery for the winter. It was brought back to the park the next spring and planted next to the No. 1 shelterhouse overlooking the lake.
photograph courtesy of Bob Jankowski
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Walther Park Moon Tree

The DeSoto Historical Tree Museum in Walther Park, De Soto, Missouri, holds trees of historical interest collected and propagated by Stan Lemaster and Theodore Klein. The park was dedicated in June, 1990, but presumably the tree was planted in the mid-1970's like the other Moon Trees. The tree is a sycamore, about 40 feet tall. The plaque next to the tree reads: "This Moon Tree is an American sycamore (Platanue occidentalis) grown from one of a small number of seeds carried to the moon and back by Astronaut Stuart Roosa on the February 1971 Apollo 14 flight. The seeds were germinated by a U.S. Forest Service scientist at NASA's Manned Space Center at Houston, Texas. The planting of this tree is intended to focus attention on the past and future importance of trees and forest resources."
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Mississippi State University Moon Tree

Sycamore (platanus occidentalis) planted at Dorman Hall on the Mississippi State University campus in Starkville, Mississippi in 1975. This tree is the source for the second generation Moon Tree seedlings sold by the American Forests' Historic Tree Nursery.
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Holliston Police Station Moon Tree

Every state was supposed to receive two trees, said Everett Reed, a local historian for the town of Pembroke. Holliston was chosen as one site, and Pembroke was chosen as the second. Reed said his town's moon tree was planted at a historical society's building in North Pembroke and they had "quite a celebration" for it. Unfortunately, he said Pembroke's moon tree died about a year-and-a-half after it was planted.
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Goddard Space Flight Center Moon Tree

In front of the Visitor's Center at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland stands a sycamore (platanus occidentalis) Moon Tree. The tree was planted on June 9, 1977, shortly after the Visitor's Center opened. Now about 35 feet high with a girth of about 18 inches, it is located towards the left looking from the parking lot, surrounded by a small fence with a blue sign.
Picture courtesy Jay Friedlander
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New Orleans Riverwalk Moon Tree

Loblolly Pine planted in June 1983 on the New Orleans riverwalk.
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Palustris Experimental Forest Moon Tree

Loblolly pine located at the Palustris Experimental Forest near Elmer, Louisiana. Planted in April, 1976 the picture shows the Moon Tree and a control Loblolly pine planted next to it. The control seed was taken from the same cone but not sent to the Moon, and then planted at the same time for comparison. The Moon Tree is on the right and the control on the left.
Photographs courtesy of Katie Mottram
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International Forest of Friendship Moon Tree

The International Forest of Friendship in Atchison, Kansas is a memorial to the men and women involved in aviation and space exploration. The Forest was started for the Bicentennial by the city of Atchinson and the Ninety-Nines, the international organization of women pilots. The forest contains trees representing all 50 states and 35 countries. The Moon Tree, a sycamore (platanus occidentalis), is dedicated to ten astronauts who lost their lives furthering space exploration. Plaques with the astronauts' names circle the tree.
photograph courtesy of Kelly W. Sandahl
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Forest Service Office Moon Trees

These two sweetgums (Liquidambar styraciflua) are growing at the U.S. Forest Service Ranger District Office in Tell City, Indiana. They were planted sometime in 1976. They're very small, only about 20 feet high or so, because they are growing right underneath a pair of larger trees and because this is close to the northern extent of its range in the midwest.
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Booker Elementary School Moon Tree

The sycamore tree located in the courtyard of Booker Elementary School was planted there by students from the school on Arbor Day, April 30, 1976. It looks like an ordinary sycamore tree, but it is indeed special, for it was one of several tree seeds in a small vial which accompanied Astronaut Stuart Roosa to the moon during the Apollo 14 Space Mission. The seeds were later given to the U.S. Forestry Service for planting and limited distribution throughout the country. Hampton’s elementary schools participated in a poetry/prose contest on the ecological, versatile, and aesthetic benefits of trees, to determine which school would be awarded the tree. Marjorie White, a 6th grade student of Booker Elementary School in 1976, submitted the winning poem, thus giving Booker School the honor of planting the "…
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Indiana Statehouse Moon Tree

Sycamore grown from seeds sent to the moon. Tree plaque Source: Nasa
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University of Idaho Moon Tree

This Moon sycamore (platanus occidentalis) is located on the lawn in front of the administration building in a grove of trees planted for the colleges of the University of Idaho. This tree was planted in honor of the College of Mines and Earth Resources.
Photograph courtesy of Jim and Sarah Windisch
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Lowell Elementary School Moon Tree

In 1977, a special pine tree was planted on the playground. The tree was grown from seeds that U.S. astronauts had taken to the moon and was, therefore, named the "Moon Tree." There were only three such trees planted in the entire state of Idaho. Lowell School received one of these trees because Governor John Evans had a son attending Lowell at that time. Source: Lowell Elementary School
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Doyle Conner Building Moon Tree

Loblolly Pine germinated from seed taken to the moon.
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Mission Plaza Moon Tree

The coast redwood (sequoia sempervirens) Moon Tree in San Luis Obispo was planted as a 55-inch tall seedling on 30 July 1976. It is located in Mission Plaza just upsteam from the Broad Street Bridge.
Tree photo courtesy of Doug Allen
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Friendly Plaza Moon Tree

The coast redwood (sequoia sempervirens) Moon Tree in Monterey, California was planted in July 1976 in Friendly Plaza near Colton Hall. The tree was dedicated to the "people of Monterey to commemorate the Bicentennial of the United States of America, and for the enjoyment of all future generations."
Tree photo courtesy of Julie D'Angelo
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Tilden Nature Area Moon Tree

This redwood was planted on 26 July 1976 at the Environmental Education Center in Tilden Nature Area, Berkeley, California. Source: Nasa
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Humboldt State University Moon Trees

Three redwood trees on HSU's campus were brought to the moon when they were mere seedlings. Now a group of six trees stands clustered on the side of the theatre arts building; the three in the middle are the Moon Trees. Source: HSU trees are out of this world
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University of Arizona Moon Tree

The University of Arizona tree is a sycamore (platanus occidentalis) planted on 30 April 1976. The tree is located between the Kuiper Space Sciences Building and the Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Arizona.
Photograph courtesy of Jim Scotti
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Flagstaff Junior High School Moon Tree

This Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga Menziesii) was planted on 30 April 1976. The high altitude (almost 7000 feet) has probably inhibited the tree's growth. The tree is only about 6 feet tall and has been pulled up once.
Photograph courtesy of Marc Leitermann
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Alabama State Capitol Moon Tree

Unmarked loblolly pine on the grounds of the Alabama State Capitol Building, Montgomery, Alabama. Located next to the statue of Albert Patterson.
Image courtesy of Skeeter Etheridge
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens Moon Tree

Sycamore (platanus occidentalis) planted Arbor Week, 1976, at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Alabama
Photograph courtesy of Lawrence Michalove
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