world's oldest organism

[Craig Johnson]

i thought the pine in norway /sweden is better as at least its a tree! strange how we always thought that all realy very old things(pants) had to be large!!

[skyhuck]

i thought the pine in norway /sweden is better as at least its a tree! strange how we always thought that all realy very old things(pants) had to be large!!

 

The thing is, is it really that old??

 

They say its a clone, surely its only really as old as the oldest living tissue.

 

The dead bits are very old, but dead.

[mdvaden]

linky;

Scrubby oak lauded as oldest known living organism - Science, News - The Independent

 

Interesting. One of those things that looks out of place due to extreme age and habitat change.

 

Thanks for the article.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

mmmm, think maybe lichens could be a rival? if this cloning walking tree can claim, as with the mellea/ostoye fans then I suspect, even reefs can claim, and probably hands down!

[josharb87]

The thing is, is it really that old??

 

They say its a clone, surely its only really as old as the oldest living tissue.

 

The dead bits are very old, but dead.

 

 

intresting point that huck

[Shamanpan]

When I first read this thread, it set off my dyslexia and I had to challenge it within myself. I thought that the oldest 'orgasm' was between Adam & Eve.

 

Then I asked my partner who is conscientiously studying for her degree in conservation management. She faced up to the challenge and then set about to blind me with science. She thought that the Ginko Biloba Tree was the oldest living tree (organism) but then tapped the keys of her gigeripokeri tablet and as if by magic, she found the article from the Independent. It would indeed appear that the Jurupa Oak is in fact the oldest living organism to date. It is recorded as being 13000 years old. The linage of an Oak tree will probably precede this date but this particular Jurupa, is to date the oldest living species which science as so far traced.

 

I guess for me it makes me feel so appreciative of the trees we work and live with and reminds me that we should only harvest what we need lest we destroy the wonderful evidence of organismic life around us.

 

Lets remember that despite the doom and gloom banded round from the media, we still live in a truly wonderful world.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

When I first read this thread, it set off my dyslexia and I had to challenge it within myself. I thought that the oldest 'orgasm' was between Adam & Eve.

 

Then I asked my partner who is conscientiously studying for her degree in conservation management. She faced up to the challenge and then set about to blind me with science. She thought that the Ginko Biloba Tree was the oldest living tree (organism) but then tapped the keys of her gigeripokeri tablet and as if by magic, she found the article from the Independent. It would indeed appear that the Jurupa Oak is in fact the oldest living organism to date. It is recorded as being 13000 years old. The linage of an Oak tree will probably precede this date but this particular Jurupa, is to date the oldest living species which science as so far traced.

 

I guess for me it makes me feel so appreciative of the trees we work and live with and reminds me that we should only harvest what we need lest we destroy the wonderful evidence of organismic life around us.

 

Lets remember that despite the doom and gloom banded round from the media, we still live in a truly wonderful world.

 

 

 

well said! i too dont take too much notice of the doom and gloom brigade, nature always heals, and i doubt the guys sitting in wall street have any idea what that healing is like, each to thier own eh.