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Pando aspen grove at Fishlake National Forest. Pando ( Latin for "I spread"), [1] the world's largest tree, is a quaking aspen tree ( Populus tremuloides) located in Sevier County, Utah in the Fishlake National Forest. A male clonal organism, Pando has an estimated 47,000 stems (ramets) that appear as individual trees, but are connected by a ...
Methuselah is a 4,855-year-old [1] Great Basin bristlecone pine ( Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. [2] [3] It is recognized as the non- clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world. [4] The tree's name refers to the biblical patriarch Methuselah, who is said to have ...
Pinus longaeva (commonly referred to as the Great Basin bristlecone pine, intermountain bristlecone pine, or western bristlecone pine) [2] is a long-living species of bristlecone pine tree found in the higher mountains of California, Nevada, and Utah. [3] Methuselah is a bristlecone pine that is 4,855 years old and has been credited as the ...
March 7, 2024 at 9:15 AM. Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study. Dating back 390 million years, the fossils break ...
A clonal colony can survive for much longer than an individual tree. A colony of 48,000 quaking aspen trees (nicknamed Pando), covering 106 acres (43 ha) in the Fishlake National Forest of Utah, is considered one of the oldest and largest organisms in the world. Recent estimates set the colony's age at several thousand (up to 14,000) years ...
Prometheus (tree) Prometheus (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non- clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine ( Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States. The tree, which was at least 4,862 years old and possibly more than 5,000, was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and ...
1,487 m 3 (52,500 cu ft) Date seeded. 700 - 300 BC. General Sherman is a giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located at an elevation of 2,109 m (6,919 ft) above sea level in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth.
Old-growth European beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro. Cool temperate rainforest in Tasmania, Australia. First growth or virgin forest near Mount Rainier, 1914. An old-growth forest [a] is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ecological ...