What are the longest lifespan of trees..........?

Question

What are the longest lifespan of trees..........?

Answer 1

The oldest known is the Methuselah Tree, over 4,600 years and still growing. U.S. Forest Service policy is to protect the anonymity of the individual tree as a safeguard against thoughtless actions or outright vandalism. There is no sign for the Methuselah Tree, and the trail guide identifies only the general vicinity where several of the oldest trees were found. They grow in the White Mountains of Colorado, but they have also found fossils dating back well before the time of Christ.

Answer 2

It all depends on the tree. I know some trees are over 4000 years old and one or two are thought to be about 10,000 years old. One is in Sweden I think.

I do seem to remember a report on the news some ten or 15 years ago about a tree that is supposed to be 40,000 years old in tasmania but have not heard anything about it since. generally speaking though trees live well into their hundreds.

Answer 3

Bristlecone Pine longest. One such tree named The Methuselah Tree (estimated germination 2832 BC) is a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) in the White Mountains of California, which was 4,789 years old when sampled in 1957 by Schulman and Harlan. It is one of the oldest known non-clonal living organisms still alive, at the age of about 4,839 years old.

NOTE: There is a claim that a Cedar in Yakushima, Japan is over 7,200 years old. If true that tree might be older but there are many examples of long lived Bristlecone pine.

Answer 4

8000 years

http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039...

Answer 5

I would have thought longer then 500 years, maybe several hundreds but i really don't know, I mean you see the ones on TV that are hundreds and hundreds of years old.

Answer 6

the boababs can live for over 1000 years and still produce fruit

Answer 7

long lived trees such as Dracena draco can exist for around 1000 years.  There is one that is 1000 years old on the canary Islands.  The dracena draco is somewhat like a cordyline palm except it has much smaller leaves and branches.  Some trees can live to 4000 years old and others produce suckers at the base so the tree keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Answer 8

500 yrs