There are claims about #AmericanSycamore #Platanus_occidentalis with much *much* larger trunks include one described by, of all people, #GeorgeWashington from what would later become #PointPleasant #WestVirginia (yes, the #Mothman town…) with a trunk circumference of 44’10” (13.67 m) — roughly a diameter of over 14’ (4.37 m).

Text is from Hulbert and Badgley’s 2010 The Ohio River: A Course of Empire