At 4 850 Years Old This Tree Is Older Than The Pyramids Of Giza

Methuselah wasn’t always the oldest tree. Once there was another Bristlecone Pine nicknamed Prometheus that was accidentally cut down by a researcher whose core sampler got stuck in the trunk. To his absolute horror, the core samples showed the tree to be over 5 000 years old, but by then it was pretty much firewood.

Bristlecone Pines are notoriously slow growers and average about 0.02cm a year. They are fortunately not the only geriatrics around, and a clonal forest of Quaking Aspen in Utah, known as Pando, has been shown to be as old as 14,000 years. The enormous forest is a collection of genetically identical stems which sprang from one single seed.

Dubbed “faithful chroniclers of the world’s weather patterns,” we have a lot to learn from ancestral trees. If trees are your jam, you can check out the below doccie about Methuselah:

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