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List of oldest trees. Pando, a colony of quaking aspen, is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old. It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources.
Height. 5 m (16 ft 5 in) Date seeded. c. 7550 BC. Old Tjikko[a] is an approximately 9,566 years-old Norway spruce, located in the Dalarna province in Sweden. Old Tjikko originally gained fame as the "world's oldest tree". [1] Old Tjikko is, however, a clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over millennia rather than an ...
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 ...
According to Kullman's team, the tree's root system has been growing for 9,550 years, placing its start date at the beginning of the last Ice Age. The incredible lifespan is thanks to the plant's ...
Date seeded. 2833 BC (age 4855–4856) Custodian. United States Forest Service. Methuselah is a 4,856-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]
Alerce Milenario[1] (Spanish: "Millennial Alerce" or "Millennial Larch") or Gran Abuelo, [2] also known in English as Great-Grandfather, [3] is the largest tree in Chile's Alerce Costero National Park. [1] While it has been on the list of oldest trees, this Alerce tree (Fitzroya cupressoides) is now rivalling others to be possibly the oldest ...
Jurupa Oak. The Jurupa Oak, or Hurungna Oak, [1][2] is a clonal colony of Quercus palmeri (Palmer's oak) trees in the Jurupa Mountains in Crestmore Heights, Riverside County, California. The colony has survived an estimated 13,000 years through clonal reproduction, [3][4][5] making it one of the world's oldest living trees. [5]
Guinness World Records clocks the tree at 4,856 years old as of 2024. The Great Basin bristlecone pine is the oldest tree species in the world, with many trees dating back around 4,000 years and ...