Oldest tree?

[Dave Shepard]

Any thing that can live to over 6,000 years has to be living evolution.

Now there's something to think about!

 

[rbtree]

Sorry Frans...I was wondering if anyone had seen the "Eternal God" tree or if the location was unknown.

I read the Bristlecone location is secret.

True.....but not when I visited the Bristlecone forest back in 1969. I'm pretty sure we saw the tree.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Some old trees on Yakushima island:

 

[Altissimus]

Jay , what species ?

 

[rumination]

The picture with the fellow doing the funny stretch appears to be a Ficus microcarpa.

 

[woodworkingboy]

The last photo is a Cryptomeria, in the cypress family, and also known as a "Japanese cedar", but it's not really a cedar. The largest specimen known. Probably also the first pic as well.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Lordy, that first pic is AWESOME.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Nice island to visit. They've made the trees into living treasures or something. You can look but you can't touch...officially.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I just made it my desktop.

 

[Altissimus]

NICE !

 

[brendonv]

That's too cool.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Nature is a fine sculptor.

 

[Blinky]

That is one HUGE C. japonica. Around here a 10" dba goes about 80' high. They get some kind blight or canker though and die young.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I like the tree in the background best.

 

[Blinky]

I like the tree in the background best.

That's what I liked about that shot too... the fog really makes it.

 

[treelooker]

About a third of those 'fun facts' aren't facts at all.

Well 2 out of 3 ain't bad...

oldest tree is in scandinavia; smoked the bcones

 

[rumination]

Apparently the bristlecone pines have lost their place as oldest in the world.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencea.../Worlds-oldest-tree-discovered-in-Sweden.html


Guy, I don't recommend smoking bristlecones, I'm sure they're not good for your lungs and I don't think they'll get you high anyways.

 

[Knotahippie]

Cool article.

 

[stig]

But again, it's clones and not single well defined individual trees.

It is like the discussion about the biggest living being, where the General Sherman tree is being beaten by a subterranean fungus clone or a milewide clone of aspen.
They may be bigger, but it just ain't the same!!
At least not to me.

 

[rumination]

That's true, the bristlecones still hold the record for the oldest living single trees.

 

[Frans]

“A new erect stem emerges, and it may lose contact with the mother tree over time.”
The trunks of the mother tree would survive only around 600 years but the trees are able to grow a new one,

Yea, our bristlecone pines still kick ass

 

[TREECYCLE]

Old Tree

Ran into this tree on top of El Cap in yosemite, It looked pretty old was wondering the species?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Wow! That would be fun to deadwood.

 

[TREECYCLE]

I would probably bid it by the hour

 

[sotc]

Awesome shot!