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Interesting side note: Mugwort tends to grow next to poison oak.

She added that election officials have received ominous texts and phone calls, including one in which a voice said, “I know your son’s window is on the second floor by the oak tree.”

Band member Andrew Stevenson grew up in Lochaber and knew about the ancient oak tree.

Those areas will have similar plantings along with native oaks and other native trees, which can’t be planted on the crossing because their roots run too deep, Rock said.

Well-known trees such as magnolias are among the most threatened, with oaks, maple and ebonies also at risk.