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List of oldest trees. Pando, a colony of , 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. Definitions of what constitutes an individual tree vary.
5 m (16 ft 5 in) Date seeded. 7550 BC. Old Tjikko is a 9,550 year-old Norway spruce, located on Fulufjället Mountain of 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Llangernyw Yew. Coordinates: 53.192333°N 3.685068°W. The Llangernyw Yew. The Llangernyw Yew ( [ɬanˈɡɛrnɨu] ⓘ) is an ancient yew ( Taxus baccata) in the village of Llangernyw, Conwy, Wales. The tree is fragmented and its core part has been lost, leaving several enormous offshoots. The girth of the tree at the ground level is 10.75 m (35 ...
Fortingall Yew. / 56.59823°N 4.05093°W / 56.59823; -4.05093. The Fortingall Yew is an ancient European yew ( Taxus baccata) in the churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland. Considered one of the oldest trees in Britain, modern estimates place its age at an average of 5,000 years.