Swedish Spruce Tree Maybe World's Oldest Living Tree at 8000 Years Old
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Swedish Spruce tree is maybe the world's oldest living tree, according to study - beating California's "Methuselah" tree, a Great Basin bristlecone pine. Scientists found a cluster of spruces in the mountains in western Sweden and have found, through carbon dating, that this trees have an estimated 8,000 years old.
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Carbon dating of the trees carried out at a laboratory in Miami, Florida, showed the oldest of them first set root about 8,000 years ago, making it the world's oldest known living tree, Umea University Professor Leif Kullman said.
California's "Methuselah" tree, a Great Basin bristlecone pine, is often cited as the world's oldest living tree with a recorded age of between 4,500 and 5,000 years.
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