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Old Tjikko is an approximately 9566 year-old Norway spruce, located on Fulufjället Mountain of Dalarna province in Sweden. Old Tjikko originally gained fame as the "world's oldest tree". Old Tjikko is, however, a clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over millennia rather than an individual tree of great age.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
At more than 2,300 years old, it is the oldest living human-planted tree in the world with a known planting date. [5] [6] The Mahavamsa , or the great chronicle of the Sinhalese, provides an elaborate account of the establishment of the Jaya Siri Maha Bodhi on the Island and the subsequent development of the site as a major Buddhist pilgrimage ...
The Methuselah Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is the location of the "Methuselah", a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is 4,855 years old. [7] It is considered to be the world's oldest known and confirmed living non- clonal organism. It was temporarily superseded by a 5,062 year old bristlecone pine discovered in 2010.
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]