Tree Quiz: Honest Abe’s favorite tree?

The White Oak is the Illinois state tree, seen here in a 1993 photo from inside the White Oaks Mall in Springfield, Ill. (Springfieldrewind.com)

Any presidential historians out there?

Despite his axe-wielding abilities, was ‘Honest Abe’ a secret admirer of the Cherry Tree?

On President Lincoln’s birthday, let us honor the White Oak, the state tree for his home state of Illinois—even though the president was actually born in what state?

–Toshio Suzuki