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Pando, a colony of quaking aspen, is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old, and 18,000 years by the latest (2024) estimate. [1] It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual ...
The stump (lower left) and some remains of the Prometheus tree (center), in the Wheeler Bristlecone Pine Grove at Great Basin National Park near Baker, Nevada. Prometheus (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States.
Although Methuselah is the oldest known non-clonal organism for which a reliable age has been established, the Alerce Milenario in Chile (5,484 years old), [21] [22] Llangernyw Yew in Wales (4,000 – 5,000 years old) and especially the Fortingall Yew in Scotland (3,000 – 9,000 years old) have some age estimates exceeding that of Methuselah.
The Methuselah Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is the location of the "Methuselah", a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is 4,856 years old. [7] It is considered to be the world's oldest known and confirmed living non-clonal organism. It was temporarily superseded by a 5,062 year old bristlecone pine discovered in 2010.
Methuselah is a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is 4,856 years old and has been credited as the oldest known living non-clonal organism on Earth. [6] To protect it, the exact location of this tree is kept secret. In 1987, the bristlecone pine was designated one of Nevada's state trees. [7]
Each of the trees in this stand is a genetically identical male that has reproduced vegetatively. Although no single tree in this stand is of that age, the stand itself as a single organism has existed that long. [107] Individual trees in the clonal patch have been listed as having ages of 2000 [108] [109] or even to 3000 years old. [110] [111]
It is therefore the oldest known living individual non-clonal tree in the world. [53] A specimen of Fitzroya cupressoides in Chile was measured by ring count as 3,653 years old, meaning this species has the second-oldest verified age of any non-clonal tree species. [53] [54]
Was the oldest living non-clonal organism. The age was estimated at 5,000 years. The tree was cut down on 6 August 1964, by a graduate student and US Forest Service personnel for research purposes, though at the time they did not know of its world-record age. Senator: Pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens) Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida, US ~3,500