What is the oldest tree on earth?
Here is what is said about the Swedish tree. From; http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080414-oldest-tree.html “The world’s oldest known living tree, a conifer that first took root at the end of the last Ice Age, has been discovered in Sweden, researchers say. The visible portion of the 13-foot-tall (4-meter-tall) “Christmas tree” isn’t ancient, but its root system has been growing for 9,550 years, according to a team led by Leif Kullman, professor at Umeå University’s department of ecology and environmental science in Sweden.” So I vote for Methuselah. From; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree) “Methuselah (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 the oldest known non-clonal organism still alive, at the age of about 4,841 years old.12 It is the oldest known individual tree in the world.
