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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 It was temporarily superseded by a 5,062 year old bristlecone pine discovered in 2010.
Bristlecone pines are known for attaining great ages. The oldest bristlecone pine in the White Mountains is Methuselah, which has a verified age of 4,856 years. It is located in the White Mountains of Inyo County in Eastern California. However, the specific location of Methuselah is a closely guarded secret. [15]
Methuselah is a 4,856-year-old [1] Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. [2] [3] It is recognized as the non-clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world. [4]
Bristlecones on dolomite hillside, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. Bristlecone pines are protected in a number of areas owned by the United States federal government, such as the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California and the Great Basin National Park in Nevada. [9] [11] These areas prohibit the cutting or ...
Bristlecone pine, White Mountains, California. A bristlecone pine, named Methuselah, located within the mountain range is the oldest known, verified living tree in the world, at 4,856 years old. [1] Pine nuts from piñon pine stands were harvested as a winter staple food by Paiute Indians whose descendants still live in adjacent valleys.
Researchers in Chile identify a challenger to the world's oldest tree: an alerce in Alerce Costero National Park that may be over 5,000 years old.
Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva: Wheeler Peak, Nevada: United States: Cut down by Donald Rusk Currey in 1964. [9] Methuselah: 4,856 [nb 1] 2,832 BCE: Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva: White Mountains (California) United States: It is the oldest known living (non-clonal) tree in the world. [11] Alerce Milenario or Gran ...
The Inyo National Forest contains the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, which protects specimens of Great Basin bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva). One of these bristlecone pines is "Methuselah", the second oldest known non-clonal living tree on earth at more than 4,839 years old; the oldest known tree (discovered 2013) also lives in the park. [15]