Methuselah's got competition

[elicokiz]

Just read this article regarding the worlds (supposed) oldest living tree. Is it just me who would be cynical with experts removing the bristlecone from the number one slot for longevity.This spruce resembles Silk woods (westonbirt arboreum's ) lime coppice which is rumoured to be around 8,000 years old its self, but is not the original tree which would have grown from a seed as is true of the bristle cones. sorry for my ranting and frothing at the mouth but i am a tree loving nerd ...(not in a sexual way, honest..)

 

Dave:thumbup:

 

p.s sorry if its an old thread

 

World's oldest tree discovered in Sweden - Telegraph

[mdvaden]

Sounds like its like the oldest known stump, or oldest known root system.Other species' ages would change dramatically if we applied the same approach to age.

 

Take this cathedral redwood below. The middle trunk which is broken and hidden back behind, had to be one of the biggest in the park. What ... maybe 2000 year old back then? 2500 years? More?But then add the basal sprouts from its roots that followed. How many centuries old are those? How many years does that add? Then was the center stem actually a basal sprout of another parent redwood prior? Like 2000 B.C.?

 

There's got to be some examples that go back 6000 to 10000 years if we want to include oddities and clonal growth.

 

That spruce could be the oldest carbon dating-wise. But I like to think of tree age in relation to how old an existing above ground trunk is.

[RobArb]

what about the great colony of aspens that are all one organism? is it not reported somewhere that the organism is about 30,000 years old?

[elicokiz]

Sounds like its like the oldest known stump, or oldest known root system.Other species' ages would change dramatically if we applied the same approach to age.

 

Take this cathedral redwood below. The middle trunk which is broken and hidden back behind, had to be one of the biggest in the park. What ... maybe 2000 year old back then? 2500 years? More?But then add the basal sprouts from its roots that followed. How many centuries old are those? How many years does that add? Then was the center stem actually a basal sprout of another parent redwood prior? Like 2000 B.C.?

 

There's got to be some examples that go back 6000 to 10000 years if we want to include oddities and clonal growth.

 

That spruce could be the oldest carbon dating-wise. But I like to think of tree age in relation to how old an existing above ground trunk is.

 

I totally agree ... hooray for the bristle cones:thumbup1:.....stunning pictures...guessing thats yourself in Kings Canyon.looks awesome?

[elicokiz]

whoops just spotted my mistake ...they are coastal redwoods, not giant redwoods...sorry mdvaden.