re: Measuring trees for Louisiana/National big tree registry

Fair enough. It has four main trunks with individual circumferences of 8', 8.4', 5.5', and 7.1'.

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Very likely. I was going to mention that but didnt. we cut young crape myrtles to make them multi trunks which sell better. Looks very similar.

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I still vote it was cut off/broke very young. Hell Im a certified arborist and raised in a nursery but Im still just guessing. Let us know what the pros say.

Just let me know what you need me to say

Yea singles dont normally sell as well as multiples in them either. People like the multiples like crape myrtles. That's why we cut the singles off low and get them to come back multiples so people won't know the difference YSWIDT.

ETA: I think your right though based off that 3rd pic

Those trees aren't even that big.

Yeah, thats three trees.

For those that believe their big tree hadn't been seen before...I've worked with taxo botanists..they have been probably to every acre in the state the last 40 years. In fact the world's most prolific plant collector collected mainly in Louisiana for 30 years. Then you have dozens of others that have collected tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands more specimens. Just making a point that their are multiple occupations that look at trees/plants and make note of any "noteworthy" trees.

I have been on many pieces of property around this state and Mississippi. Some of them haven't been touched in 30-50 years. Like Langston said, there is no way that they have been to every piece of property with big trees in the state. They probably use satellite imagery and thermal imagery now, but it can be a whole different world on there ground. I saw some huge cypress trees once and tried to find them on the computer. No beans, they had phenomenal dbh, but their crown cover wasn't shite. I was able to find a few of them on Bing maps, but not most. There are still a few untouched stands of trees around the state. I would say that number is under 5, but when you see them, you'll shite bricks

Yep, pretty sure. Its only been in the last 20 years that every parcel of land has been posted. And botanists know which lands to look on. If you look at the taxo-visited sites by parish at the big herbariums (the ones that are finished) you see the suckers covered with hundreds, sometimes thousands of sites. But,obviously there may be a very very few trees that are old enough to be near records and haven't been seen by a forester, taxo botanist, botanist, amateur reporters, etc., but I doubt it.
I remember being with a taxo professor that was doing a friend of a friend a favor and checked out an oak tree (dont remember the species)whilein the area. After looking at it, he told the owner it was "very impressive" etc, but it wasnt nearly a record. the owner asked how much bigger it had to get....the professor said - "about twice that size".