Tag: cypress
The oldest trees in the world
Older than the Pyramids, as old as Stonehenge, and ‘around the time the Polynesians settled Fiji’—these are the types of expressions used to describe the age of the world’s oldest trees.
This collection of photos and descriptions, published last week by Wired, displays some of the most ancient trees on the planet.
Scroll to the bottom to see an almost 10,000-year-old tree in Sweden that’s about the same size as Friends of Trees plants via its Neighborhood Trees program!
From Wired.com:
The world’s oldest individual tree lives 10,000 feet above sea level in the Inyo National Forest, Calif. A staggering 4,765 years old, this primeval tree was already a century old when the first pyramid was built in Egypt. The tree is hidden among other millennia-old Great Basin bristlecone pines in a grove called the Forest of Ancients. To protect the tree from vandalism, the forest service keeps its exact location secret, but this one looks like it could be Methuselah.
From Wired.com:
This cryptomeria tree’s 83-foot height and 53-foot girth makes it the largest conifer in Japan. The tree grows in a misty, old-growth forest on the north face of the tallest mountain on Yakushima island in Japan. Tree rings indicate the venerable cryptomeria is at least 2,000 years old, though some estimate it could be as old as 7,000 years.
From Wired.com:
This giant cypress lives in Abarkooh, Iran. The evergreen took root between 4,000 and 4,500 years ago, around the time that Stonehenge was being completed. It may be the oldest living thing in Asia, and is a national monument in Iran. The Zorastrian Sarv stands about 82 feet high and has a girth of 37.8 feet.
The seven wonders of the tree world
Courtesy of the Mother Nature Network, this slideshow series identifies the most important, significant, amazing … trees in the world.
Description from mnn.com:
This redwood tree is located in Sequoia National Park in California and is believed to be between 2,300 and 2,700 years old. It towers about 275 feet above the ground, is the largest non-clonal tree in the world by volume, and is more than 100 feet around at the base.
Description from mnn.com:
The Tule Tree, or El Árbol del Tule, is a Montezuma cypress tree on the grounds of a church in Santa María del Tule, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It measures more than 119 feet around but is only 116 feet high. It’s believed that the tree is about 2,000 years old.