Europe's oldest living tree discovered

[Still Waters]

A Bosnian pine growing in the highlands of Northern Greece is the continent's oldest living tree at 1,075 years, say a group of international scientists.

The ancient pine was dated using tree rings, by extraction a core from the outside to the center of the tree.

The discovery was made by researchers from Stockholm University, the University of Mainz (in Germany) and the University of Arizona.

http://www.seeker.com/europes-oldest-living-tree-discovered-1979226777.html

[freetoroam]

Why do they not stick with its original name now = Adonis, seeings that it is in Greece and has been for many years? 

 

[docyabut2]

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Amazing how some life on earth survives

 

[Myles]

Next story:

Europe's oldest tree dying due to core sample being extracted.

[+OverSword]

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Methuselah, a bristlecone pine tree from California's White Mountains, is thought to be almost 5,000 years old—and the oldest non-clonal tree in the world. The exact location of the gnarled, twisted Methuselah is a Forest Service secret, for its protection

We win!  USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

[quiXilver]

ironically.. the drilling of the core sample to guesstimate its age, is probably one of its greatest recent threats to its continued longevity...

[Gingitsune]

Let's hope Mathuselah don't burn down or dry up with the climatic bad stuff going on in Calfornia right now. 

[Kleng]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree)

[Scarlatti]

Last time I checked, Britain was still part of Europe and the Fortingall Yew tree in Perthshire is reckoned to be between 2 and 3,000 years old.

[+DieChecker]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko

[Mr.United_Nations]

On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 0:50 PM, DieChecker said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko

Thats a tree which is a "colony tree" not independant

[+DieChecker]

12 hours ago, Mr.United_Nations said:

Thats a tree which is a "colony tree" not independant

Is a fungus only the mushroom?

Nope, the roots are part of the tree, right? I understand it grows a new trunk over and over, but does the trunk define the tree? As long as it grows up from the same root system, it is one tree.

[Parsec]

On 26/8/2016 at 10:58 AM, Scarlatti said:

Last time I checked, Britain was still part of Europe and the Fortingall Yew tree in Perthshire is reckoned to be between 2 and 3,000 years old.

Did you check before or after May 23rd?

 

Anyway, the article says "it's the continent's oldest living tree",  so you are both right

[SHaYap]

Hehehehe the list is as convoluted and twisted as is gnarly ... as the roots themselves ...

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This is a list of the oldest known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual tree vary. In addition, tree ages are derived from a variety of sources, including documented "tree-ring" count core samples, and from estimates. For these reasons, this article presents three lists of "oldest trees," each using varying criteria.

There are three tables of trees, which are listed by age and species. The first table includes trees for which a minimum age has been directly determined, either through counting or cross-referencing tree rings or through radiocarbon dating. Many of these trees may be even older than their listed ages, but the oldest wood in the tree has rotted away. For some old trees, so much of the centre is missing that their age cannot be directly determined. Instead, estimates are made based on the tree's size and presumed growth rate. The second table includes trees with these estimated ages. The last table lists clonal colonies in which no individual tree trunks may be remarkably old but in which the organism as a whole is thought to be very old.

 

• wiki link

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or the picture tour guide ... from MNN Galleries link

 

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The world's 10 oldest living trees

By: Bryan Nelson on April 7, 2010, 12:42 p.m.

 

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[Zalmoxis]

I'm not a tree hugger but I thought this article was interesting.