Before the record-a long-liver was considered ancient bristlecone pine, its age is 4845 years old. But, of course, is for the trees is not the limit.
Later, scientists discovered in the California mountains a new champion – another pine, but the age of 5062. The same old tree, growing on the territory of modern Europe is 1075-year-old Heldreich Pine (Pinus heldreichii) growing up in Greece. Pine called Adonis after the Greek God of beauty and youth.
Of course, in Europe certainly there are trees much older than what grows in Greece. But scientists have yet to detect them and to formally estimate their age. Take Hoth would be yew, growing near the Church in North Wales. According to the average estimate his age is at least 4000 years.
Despite the fact that these individual trees are considered as a kind of Champions, they don’t even come close to the truly ancient creatures. We are talking about clonal colonies of genetically identical groups of trees, United by a common root system. For example, a colony of 40 000 ocinebrina poplars (Populus tremuloides) located in the national Park of the U.S. state of Utah, according to average estimates of lives on our planet for more than 80 000 years.
