10 oldest trees in the world
When it comes to relationships, most people say, “Age doesn’t matter.” When it comes to individuals, however, you’d have to agree that it does. Especially now when people’s lives appear to be getting shorter and shorter. There are, however, organisms that manage to live to be quite old. We’ve had the opportunity to discuss the world’s oldest garden as well as the world’s longest-living animals. Let’s talk about creatures that have been around for centuries this week. Here are the world’s ten oldest still-living trees, according to verifiable age.
Name: Methuselah
Verified Age: 4,849-year-old
Species: Great Basin bristlecone pine
Location: Inyo County, California
Name: Gran Abuelo
Verified Age: 3,646-year-old
Species: Patagonian cypress
Location: Cordillera Pelada, Los Ríos
Name: Oliveira do Mouchão
Verified Age: 3,350
Species: European olive tree
Location: Mouriscas, Abrantes Portugal
Name: The President
Verified Age: 3,200
Species: Giant sequoia
Location: Sierra Nevada, California
Name: CB-90–11
Verified Age: 2,460
Species: Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine
Location: Central Colorado
Name: Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
Verified Age: 2,302
Species: Sacred fig
Location: Anuradhapura, North Central Province, Sri Lanka
Name: Bennett Juniper
Verified Age: 2,200
Species: Western Juniper
Location: Sierra Nevada, California
Name: SHP 7
Verified Age: 2,110
Species: Foxtail Pine
Location: Sierra Nevada California
Name: Unnamed
Verified Age: 1,944
Species: Subalpine Larch
Location: Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada
Name: Unnamed
Verified Age: 1,806
Species: Sugi
Location: Yakushima Island, Japan
We’ve now seen the world’s oldest still-living trees. The age of these trees has been confirmed by counting their “tree rings,” which is a typical method of determining their age. The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi, on the other hand, is the world’s only live human-planted tree with a known planting date of 288 BC.
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