Wot is the longest living tree?

Question

Wot is the longest living tree?

Answer 1

According to National Geographic the singular oldest living tree is is Sweden. It's a 9550 year old Norway Spruce.

But as a species/group/forest the Bristlecone Pines in California are the oldest, around 5000 years.

Redwoods will be a common answer. Individuals can be about 2000 years old.

Answer 2

On a wild Tasmanian mountain there is a magnificent, recently discovered stand of Huon pine trees that has been called the world's 'oldest known living organism'. Newspaper reports have claimed that what looks like hundreds of trees densely covering one hectare (2.5 acres), is all part of the one tree, since all these 'trees' appear to have identical DNA. Over the years, it is believed, 'snow has forced its branches to the ground, where they have taken root'. (The Sydney Morning Herald, January 28, 1995, page 1.)

It is hard to see how a tree could be older than the time since the biblical Flood, so if its published age of 'more than 10,500 years old' were correct, then this would present a serious challenge to Old Testament chronology. In fact, some media reports claim the tree 'could be 30,000 or 40,000 years old'.

The media reported that scientists had definitly found the world's 'oldest living organism' in these Tasmanian Huon pines. A scientist working on the project said, 'we have made no such claim'.

Answer 3

i think it is the tree in Spain called the OLDASFUK TREE its huge trunk is the same circumference as a weeping willy tree

Answer 4

aspen I believe....

Groves of aspen are actually a single tree...all the trees share a common root system.., and the entire aspen grove could be around for thousands of years.

The most common answer will probably be redwood trees....but I do not think this is correct.

here it is...in that wiki that someone else posted...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree...

the Pando is a type of Aspen tree grove.... ranging from 80-100k years.

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure it's the Bristlecone Pine, which grows in (I think) North America. The Glastonbury Yew is pretty ancient, but I think I remember hearing that the pine's age can be measured in thousands of years rather than hundreds.

If you can get hold of a DVD of David Attenborough's series 'The Private Life Of Plants' he does go into this, with examples, in the first episode and that's what I'm trying to remember while I'm typing this!

Answer 6

I believe there is 1 in Africa that hit the records{not sure} can't remember the name.

Answer 7

Isn't it the Yew?

Answer 8

I think its the Calf. Redwood.

Answer 9

It is called Methuselah and it is 4768 years old. It is an ancient bristle-cone pine, and is found in California in the White Mountains, east of the Sierra Nevada.