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Sunday 18 November 2012

The world's oldest trees

Bristlecone Pine 4,200 years

Spruce or pine (pinus) is a tree of family Pinaceae we can find anywhere and anytime as long as the area's sandy soil is chalky, lots of water or have high enough levels of acidity. We can find this tree from Siberia, Scotland, Norway, the Canary Islands, the Philippines, the Himalayas sampe to corners of New Zealand, Brazil and Chile.





This tree is indeed famous because in addition to live everywhere but also has a very high selling power in lumber industry. All the spruce can be utilized from the twig, SAP wood, leaves, seeds to have economic value uses many of these trees really commercial

Spruce is one of the tree is long-lived because could reach the age of about 100 to 1000 years and even recorded to be the oldest tree in the world through the pine of the species in the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) that in 2008 it was 4840 years!!! The tree height is between 3-80 meters but the average height is 15-45 meters. The highest trees of the species of Sugar Pine while the shortest is the firs Potosi Pinyon and Siberian Dwarf Pine

Jōmon period Sugi 2000-7000 years

According to wikipedia, Jōmon period sugi is Japan's oldest evergreen trees found in 1968, with a height of 25.3 yards with volume 300 m cubic estimated his age between 2000 – 7200 years is located in the northernmost part of the island of Yakushima Japan 40 minutes by plane from Kagoshima Airport

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Spruce Ione Norway 9550 years

Height 4 m, but only a tree a Cypress, which is still alive in Sweden, unknown age 9550. Life since the end of the ice age, the tree is recorded as the oldest in the world today.

Ione Norway spruce tree species was discovered in 2004. researchers find it around the bushes of mountains at an elevation of 910 meters in the province of Dalarna, Sweden. The tree is not rare because people often use as Christmas trees.


"He was a very long most likely triggered emampuannya clone themselves," said Leif Kullman, Professor eologi and the environment at the University of Umea, Sweden. Stems and twigs are known to survive for up to 600 years. Kullman explains, is dead, the rod will be created from the root so that age becomes very long.

The tree is older than Bristlecone pine in the White Mountain California that only 5,000 years old. The oldest Bristlecone pine only survive up to 7,500 years but growing soars up to 150 meters. If the age is measured from the Bristlecone pine tree twigs are monitored annually, age spruce in Sweden is measured from the trail of radiocarbon dating at its roots.

Kullman said tree age older than 9550 years might say impossible. Therefore, the whole area of Sweden is likely still covered in ice.

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