The World’s Oldest Tree Lives in Sweden
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The World’s Oldest Tree Lives in Sweden
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#2Surprised it's such a small tree, more like a Bonzai tree. Though as mentioned in the article, "Big trees cannot get this old".
"The world’s oldest tree, Old Tjikko, is a 9,500-year-old Norwegian Spruce tree that was discovered in 2004 by Professor Leif Kullman, and to this day remains the world’s oldest tree."
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#3I'd always thought that the Methuselah Tree in California was the oldest living tree. Apparently there's some disagreement, as Old Tjikko is a clonal tree, meaning the trunks come and go but the roots stay living underneath [1].
So if you're counting non-clone trees, Methuselah is the oldest. If you're counting clonal trees, some Quaking Aspens are believed to be between 80,000 and 1,000,000 years old [2].
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#4Surprised it's such a small tree, more like a Bonzai tree. Though as mentioned in the article, "Big trees cannot get this old". "The world’s oldest tree, Old Tjikko, is a 9,500-year-old Norwegian Spruce tree that was discovered in 2004 by Professor Leif Kullman, and to this day remains the world’s oldest tree."
Here's a good 1 minute podcast about it - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/2AA00080-...
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#5I'd always thought that the Methuselah Tree in California was the oldest living tree. Apparently there's some disagreement, as Old Tjikko is a clonal tree, meaning the trunks come and go but the roots stay living underneath [1]. So if you're counting non-clone trees, Methuselah is the oldest. If you're counting clonal trees, some Quaking Aspens are believed to be between 80,000 and 1,000,000 years old [2]. [1] https:…
> some Quaking Aspens are believed to be between 80,000 and 1,000,000 years old [2].
1,000,000? I don't see anything in the Wikipedia article referring to anything higher than 100,000. Was this a typo, or am I missing something?
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#612000 year old beech - http://oltw.blogspot.com/2011/12/12000-year-old-antarctic-be...
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#7Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko
According to it, Old Tjikko is "the oldest known Norway spruce"
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#8I'd always thought that the Methuselah Tree in California was the oldest living tree. Apparently there's some disagreement, as Old Tjikko is a clonal tree, meaning the trunks come and go but the roots stay living underneath [1]. So if you're counting non-clone trees, Methuselah is the oldest. If you're counting clonal trees, some Quaking Aspens are believed to be between 80,000 and 1,000,000 years old [2]. [1] https:…
> some Quaking Aspens are believed to be between 80,000 and 1,000,000 years old [2]. 1,000,000? I don't see anything in the Wikipedia article referring to anything higher than 100,000. Was this a typo, or am I missing something?
I got that figure from the Norway Spruce article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_abies#Longevity
edit: I've also found this snippet: Individuals may reach ages in excess of 1 million years [1]
[1] https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/46/1/25/262587
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#9Would have been fun to see this tree in the film Midsommar, but it would have been terrible if it was damaged somehow (film makers aren't always they best at keeping nature intact, just look at the Maltese beach ecosystem which was destroyed during the filming of the GoT Dothraki wedding scenes).
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#10Would have been fun to see this tree in the film Midsommar, but it would have been terrible if it was damaged somehow (film makers aren't always they best at keeping nature intact, just look at the Maltese beach ecosystem which was destroyed during the filming of the GoT Dothraki wedding scenes).
Midsommar was recorded in Hungary in any case.