What is the most popular tree in Connecticut?

Answer 1

It's the white oak. The Charter Oak, its most famous example, is the state tree. It's also on the reverse side of the Connecticut coin in the state medal series. Its cavity is supposed to have hidden the original colony charter that King Charles II of England issued, in 1662. It gave the colony more independence than the king's brother and successor liked. So King James II grouped the colony under the Dominion of New England, under the governor-generalship of Sir Edmund Andros. Andros took the original charters from all of the Dominion members, except Connecticut. From that colony, he was given a parchment copy. And so the original document and its original rights were preserved.