From Prometheus and Methuselah to trees in remote forests of China, these are the most ancient known trees on Earth.
The world's oldest trees were growing when the Great Pyramid of Giza was being built and were already thousands of years old when Julius Caesar came to power.
In addition, an infinitesimal percentage of old trees have been cored in the first place — according to a study published in Nature in 2015, Earth is home to over 3 trillion trees. 1. Prometheus Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine in Wheeler Peak, Nevada, lived close to 5,000 years before it was cut down in 1964. It remains the longest-lived tree definitively documented.
To protect Methuselah from tourists, who might damage the tree by touching it or walking near its roots, the U.S. Forest Service has long kept Methuselah's exact location a secret and does not release photographs of it. The tree is somewhere along the 4.5-mile Methuselah Trail in the White Mountains of Inyo National Forest in California.
4. Alerce Milenario The Alerce Milenario or Gran Abuelo , in Chile's Alerce Costero National Park, made headlines in 2022 when researchers used computer modeling to estimate its age at 5,484 years. 5. Giant sequoias Like alerces, California's giant sequoias are so large that tree coring tools generally can't adequately measure their age while the trees are alive. The most accurate estimates of old sequoia trees often come primarily from trees that have been cut down or fell due to natural causes, Peter Brown, founder of Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research, which maintains a list of the world's oldest scientifically verified trees, told Live Science in an email.
6. BLK 227 bald cypress In 2019, researchers announced the discovery of a 2,624-year-old bald cypress . This unnamed tree is the oldest known living tree in eastern North America. It sits somewhere along North Carolina's Black River, a tributary of the Cape Fear River. As with many other old trees, its precise location has not been disclosed.
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