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World's oldest tree still growing near the Norwegian-Swedish border

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tgv wrote: post #19
hinkley wrote: post #2

Had to read this in reader mode because while the text of the article was in English, the cookie pop up was in what I’m guessing is Norwegian, and covered most of the space where the text is. Who does that?

Trolls, of course!

Speaking of trolls and Norway, if you have never seen André Øvredal‘s Trollhunter, you should find a copy. Easily one of my top five film festival discoveries, and generally well received by anyone I’ve shown it to.

The setup is a bunch of journalism students trying to do an expose on a man who they believe is a bear poacher, and then it’s down the rabbit hole for another hour.

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bencollier49 wrote: post #48

This blew my mind. Gives an idea of the timescales we're talking about: "The reason why Old Tjikko now finds itself on the barren rock near Trysil – more than a hundred metres higher than what is considered the tree line – is simply that the spruce tree rose along with the mountain it grows on during the land uplift that followed the ice age."

For the bristlecone pines in California and Nevada, a primary cause of death for old trees is that erosion slowly exposes their root system over time until it kills them. So in a sense, they can outlive the mountains they grow upon.

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Post by bergenty »

fancyfredbot wrote: post #7
elygre wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, one tree with multiple trunks. Many trees will drop their leaves annually, then recreate new leaves next spring. Turns out the spruce can do this with its entire trunk. I found it fascinating and enlightening, and learned something new.

IANAB (B = botanist) but I believe that many species of tree can grow more than one trunk and that the spruce is not unusual in this respect.

Yes, most if not all trees can do this. It was a strategy called coppicing that allowed more lumber to be grown from the same root system.
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