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Oldest Living Tree Found in Sweden http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080414-oldest-tree.html James Owen in Stockholm, Sweden for National Geographic News April 14, 2008 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.   Enlarge Photo  Printer Friendly Email to a Friend What's This? SHARE DiggStumbleUponReddit RELATED Prehistoric World: Quaternary Period 405-Year-Old Clam Called Longest-Lived Animal (October 29, 2007) Newfound Fossils Reveal Secrets of World's Oldest Forest (April 18, 2007) Discovered in 2004, the lone Norway spruce—of the species traditionally used to decorate European homes during Christmas—represents the planet's longest-lived identified plant, Kullman said. The researchers found the shrubby mountain survivor at an altitude of 2,985 feet (910 meters) in Dalarna Province. The tree's incredible longevity is largely due to its ability to clone itself, Kullman said. The spruce's stems or trunks have a lifespan of around 600 years, "but as soon as a stem dies, a new one emerges from the same root stock," Kullman explained. "So the tree has a very long life expectancy." Radiocarbon Dating

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Individual trees with verified ages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees#Individual_trees_with_verified_ages

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_longaeva ]

Name	Age (years)	Species	Location	Notes
?	5062–5063	Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva	White Mountains, California, United States	Oldest known currently living tree. Tree cored by Edmund Schulman, age determined by Tom Harlan.[6]
Methuselah	4844–4845	Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva	Inyo County, California, United States	[6]
Prometheus(WPN-114)	4,844	Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva	Wheeler Peak, Nevada, United States	Cut down in 1964.[6]
?	3642–3643	Patagonian cypress Fitzroya cupressoides	Alerce Andino National Park, Los Lagos, Chile	[6][7]
CBR26	3,266	Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	Dead.[6]
D-21	3,220	Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	Dead.[6]
The President	3,200	Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	Alive.[6]
D-23	3,075	Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	Dead.[6]
CMC 3	3,033	Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	Dead.[6]
Scofield Juniper	2,675	Western Juniper Juniperus occidentalis	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	Dead.[6]
CB-90-11	2455–2456	Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine Pinus aristata	central Colorado, United States	[6][8]
Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi	2,217	Sacred fig Ficus religiosa	Anuradhapura, North Central Province, Sri Lanka	a sapling from the historical Bodhi tree under which Buddha became enlightened. It was planted in 288 BC and is the oldest living human-planted tree in the world with a known planting date.[6]
?	2,200	Coast Redwood Sequoia sempervirens	northern California, United States	Dead.[6]
Bennett Juniper	2,200	Western Juniper Juniperus occidentalis	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	[6]
SHP 7	2,110	Foxtail Pine Pinus balfouriana	Sierra Nevada California, United States	[6]
?	1939–1940	Subalpine Larch Larix lyallii	Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada	[6][9]
CRE 175	1,889	Rocky Mountain Juniper Juniperus scopulorum	northern New Mexico, United States	[6]
Miles Juniper	1824–1825	Western Juniper Juniperus occidentalis	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	[6][10]
?	1801–1802	Sugi Cryptomeria japonica	Yakushima Island, Japan	[11]
KET 3996	1715–1716	Limber Pine Pinus flexilis	Ketchum, Idaho, United States	[6][12]
BFR-46	1,697	Limber Pine Pinus flexilis	Wasatch Mountains, Utah, United States	[6]
FL117	1674–1675	Northern Whitecedar Thuja occidentalis	Ontario, Canada	[6][13]
ERE	1,670	Limber Pine Pinus flexilis	northern New Mexico, United States	[6]
RCR 1	1,666	Foxtail Pine Pinus balfouriana	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	[6]
?	1,661	Limber Pine Pinus flexilis	South Park, Colorado, United States	[6]
BBL 2	1,649	Foxtail Pine Pinus balfouriana	Sierra Nevada, California, United States	[6]
BCK 69	1646–1647	Baldcypress Taxodium distichum	Bladen County, North Carolina,United States	[6][14]
?	1,636	Nootka Cypress Callitropsis nootkatensis	Vancouver Island, Canada	[6]
FL101	1,567	Northern Whitecedar Thuja occidentalis	Ontario, Canada	[6]
?	1,542	Limber Pine Pinus flexilis	central Colorado, United States	[6]

[edit]Old trees with estimated ages

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