JUST SOME OLD TREES

OLD TJIKKO

A 9,550-year-old Norway spruce, is the oldest known

living individual clonal tree, located in Sweden.

BIG BRISTLECONE PINE, PINUS LONGAEVA.

One member of this species, at 5064 years old, is the

oldest known living non-clonal organism on Earth. 

FITZROYA CUPRESSOIDES

A tall, long-lived conifer native to the Andes mountains of

southern Chile and Argentina, where it is an important

member of the Valdivian temperate rain forests. A specimen of

this species, located in the White Mountains of California was

measured by Tom Harlan to be 5,062 years old in 2012.

GRIZZLY GIANT MARIPOSA GROVE

The President tree is the name of a giant sequoia located in

the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in the United States,

east of Visalia, California. It is not the tallest giant sequoia tree in the

world with a height of about 247 feet (75 m), nor the widest at about

27ft (8.2 m) in diameter at the base, but it is the 

third largest tree in the world, measured by volume of trunk,

and the oldest known living sequoia with 3,200 years. As of 2012,

the volume of its trunk measured at about 45,000 cubic feet

(1,300 m³), with an additional 9,000 cubic feet (250 m³) of branches. 

That same year, it was determined that the President was larger

than the General Grant, if measured by total volume of

wood above ground.

JAYA SRI MAHA BODHI

Is a Sacred Fig tree in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

It is said to be the southern branch from the historical 

Bodhi tree Sri Maha Bodhi at Bodh Gaya in India under which

Lord Buddha attained Enlightenment. It was planted in 288 BC, 

and is the oldest living human-planted tree in the world with a

known planting date. Today it is one of the most sacred

relics of the Buddhists in Sri Lanka and respected by

Buddhists all over the world.

The Bennett Juniper in the Stanislaus National Forest of

California is considered the oldest and largest example at

possibly 3000 years old, with a height of 26m and a

diameter of 3.88m.