Old Trees

sauce

I came across these sites and thought that some of you might be interested in seeing them.

• Methuselah, the world's oldest known living tree
  http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html
• Alerce trees of Chile and Argentina, the second oldest living trees on earth
  http://users.frii.com/mrobbins/BigT...es/Pumalin.html
• And of course the sequoia http://www.yosemite.org/naturenotes/SequoiaAges.htm

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kingkong

Great stuff! Some of the Bald Cypress age about 1300 to 1500 years.

PatArizona

G'day all...

Maybe not a tree, however...a bush. It seems that the Creosote Bush may be the oldest living THING on earth.

FROM the Radiocarbon Lab at the University of California, Riverside:
“R. Ervin Taylor, director of the Radiocarbon Lab at the University of California, Riverside, offered to perform scientific tests to determine the age of a creosote bush in Palm Springs that could be the oldest living thing on earth.

"The creosote bush, a discovery of Jim Cornett, curator at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, is of a size and configuration that makes Cornett suspect that it is as old, or older, than the 11,700-year old 'King Clone' creosote bush discovered in the Mojave Desert in the late 1970s by Frank Vasek, a retired UCR professor and a former teacher of Cornett’s”.

“'The UCR Radiocarbon Lab is happy to collaborate with Jim Cornett,' Taylor said. 'We would have the data back six weeks from when we received the samples, at no cost to him…’ .

“Taylor's laboratory was used to determine the age of King Clone. UCR is also the place that issued the first dates on a bone fragment from Kennewick Man, an ancient skeleton found in July, 1996 on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington. That bone fragment turned out to be 9,300 years old, making it one of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in North America.

“In 1994, Taylor's lab first dated 'Spirit Cave Man' at 9,400 years old”.


Have a good day...

Pat

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Mindcrime

Seems like Da Swedes have Da US beat:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scie...20080411?rpc=64

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BunjinEnt

Whatever makes you feel better, Emil...

Cool read! Thanks for postin'.

-Wm

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MacInOakRidge

Three feet tall? Do you thing we can get it in a pot?

eeiko321

oh yeah.........."Methuselah"
ive heard all about this tree and seen pictures...
4767, thats OLD man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but the thing is, that tree looks dead.....

you dont see pics of it having foliage, & the bark looks like its all dried up.

hmmm

nfimb

what do you think you would look like if you were 47 hundred years old?

And it cant be dead if its the worlds Oldest know LIVING tree.

I think it looks like crap. But It is still alive and Kickin, And you gotta appreciate that!

kingkong

Holy radioactive decay of carbon 14 that is old! I am aware of the lab used to test the samples and yes, one has to be a rocket scientist to work there. How would you like the first day on the job if you had a degree in public relations? Oh my!

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