What is the oldest tree on earth?

Answer 1

Methuselah, a bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains, is not only the world's oldest tree, but the world's oldest living organism. There are older clonal colonies of tree, such as Pando, a quaking aspen grove in Utah, which is about 80,000 years old, but it is not truly a single organism.

Answer 2

Living tree ‘8,000 years older than Christ’ (?)
by Carl Kerby

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'.



So have these dates been obtained from drill-core sampling of the growth rings in the main trunk? Not surprisingly, the answer is 'no'. The source of the reported 'age' may be a 'guesstimate' based on core sampling a lake below the mountain which contains Huon pine pollen. This is clearly based on far more assumptions and uncertainties than tree-ring dating. Even the apparent absence of DNA differences is not 100 per cent certain, it seems, though probable.

Answer 3

The Guinness Book of World Records currently lists a 12,000 year old California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) named "Eternal God" as the oldest tree on earth. Previously, the "Methuselah" Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) held the record at about 4,700 years.


http://www.bigcushion.com/blog/2004/11/eternal-god-oldest-tree-in-world.html

Answer 4

Living tree ‘8,000 years older than Christ’ (?)
by Carl Kerby
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.)

Answer 5

Your question is not clear. Are you asking for the oldest surving species or the physical age of a group of trees. Cycads and Gingkos are both very ancient species that still survive as well as the Dawn Redwood.. But the Bristlecone and one type of Banyan tree are reportedly as old as 2,000 years.

Answer 6

A bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of eastern Calif.

Answer 7

"Methuselah" a bristlecone pine tree is around 5000 years old. It is the oldest confirmed tree. There is a creosote bush that maybe around 11,000 years old.

Answer 8

Tasmanian Huon Pines.

Answer 9

"Methuselah", an ancient Bristlecone pine tree which is
4,767 years old and is still growing in the White Mountains of California.

Answer 10

I think it's a tree that's 4000 years old!
I think it's in California!

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