Mott or motte is a term used in Texas for a copse or small grove of trees, particularly of live oaks where a tight group shares a root system. During a 2003 walking tour [1] of Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, President George W. Bush defined it for the press: ... See Grove for other meanings (disambiguation) of the word grove. A grove is a small group of trees such as a sequoia grove. ... Southern live oaks on Skidaway Island, near Savannah, Georgia Live oak is a general term for a number of unrelated oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that happen to share the character of evergreen foliage. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bush on his ranch Prairie Chapel Ranch is a 1583 acre (6. ... Crawford is a town located in western McLennan County, Texas, eighteen miles west of Waco. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ...

THE PRESIDENT: Now, these are all live oaks in here, and when live oaks like this they're called "motts".

Q: Motts? M-o-t?

THE PRESIDENT: M-o-t-t. A mott is where a group of trees grow quite tight together.

In this particular instance, the species involved was the Texas live oak (Quercus fusiformis). The Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) also occurs in the southeast of Texas, but not as far northwest as Crawford. Southern live oaks on Skidaway Island, near Savannah, Georgia Live oak is a general term for a number of unrelated oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that happen to share the character of evergreen foliage. ... Binomial name Quercus fusiformis Texas live oak is an evergreen or nearly evergreen oak tree, Quercus fusiformis, native to the southern United States, in Texas from about Corpus Christi west to the Pecos River and north to southern Oklahoma, and also in adjacent northeastern Mexico in Coahuila and Nuevo Le... Binomial name Quercus virginiana Mill. ...

Various small communities in Texas have names based on the term, including Elm Mott, Long Mott, Mott, Mustang Mott, and Round Mott. Elm Mott is a city located in McLennan County, Texas. ... LONG MOTT, TEXAS. Long Mott is a community just south of the junction of State Highway 185 and Farm Road 2235 in western Calhoun County. ...