List of oldest trees

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List of oldest trees ("oldest" by region or species), listed by age. Some ages are rounded off.

Contents 1 Individual plants 2 Clonal trees 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Individual plants

Name	Age (years)	Species	Location	Notes
Jomon Cedar	7,200	Cedar	Yakushima, Japan	Girth of 16.4 Meters, estimated to be over 7,200 years old[1]
Prometheus	4,900	Great Basin Bristlecone Pine	Nevada, United States	cut down in 1964
Methuselah	4,800	Great Basin Bristlecone Pine	California, United States
Sarv-e-Abarkooh	4,000	Cypress	Yazd, Iran	also called "Zoroastrian Sarv" [2][3][4]
?	3,600	Fitzroya	Chile	[5]
Senator	3,500	Baldcypress	Florida, United States	[6]
Patriarca da Floresta	3,000	Cariniana legalis	Brazil
Sri Maha Bodhi	2,300	Sacred fig	Sri Lanka	oldest known human-planted tree
Fortingall Yew	2,000 - 5,000	Common yew	Perthshire, Scotland	oldest tree in Britain and possibly Europe
Te Matua Ngahere	2,000 - 3,000	Kauri	Northland, New Zealand	oldest tree in New Zealand
?	2,000	Olive	Bar, Montenegro	[7]
?	2,000	Yew	Sochi, Russia	a grove known to possess several 2,000-year-old specimens.[8]
Granit oak	1,650	Oak	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
?	1,500	Hawthorn	Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie, France	oldest tree in France
Seven Sisters Oak	1,500	Southern live oak	Louisiana, United States
Angel Oak	1,400	Southern live oak	South Carolina, United States
Kongeegen	1,500 - 1,200	Oak	Zealand, Denmark	oldest oak tree in Northern Europe
Baikushev's Pine	1,300	Bosnian Pine	Pirin, Bulgaria
Stelmužė Oak	1,300	Pedunculate Oak	Stelmužė, Lithuania	oldest tree in the Baltic states
?	1,260	Yew	Henryków Lubański, Poland	oldest tree in Poland
Tane Mahuta	1,250 - 2,500	Kauri	Northland, New Zealand	largest tree in New Zealand
Onzelievehereboom	1,200	Oak	Kortessem, Belgium	oldest tree in Belgium
Árbol del Tule	1,200 - 3,000	Montezuma Cypress	Santa María del Tule, Mexico	considered the oldest tree in Mexico
?	1,120	Large-leaved Linden	Schenklengsfeld, Germany	oldest tree in Germany
Bowthorpe Oak	1,000	Oak	Bourne, England	oldest oak tree in Britain
?	1,000	Ginkgo biloba	Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine, Japan	Minamoto no Sanetomo was assassinated in 1219 by this tree
Fertility Yew	800 - 1,300	Yew	Stoke Gabriel, England	[9]
Major Oak	800	Oak	Sherwood Forest, England	possibly Robin Hood's headquarters
?	700	Beech	Apulia, Italy	oldest beech
Queens Giant	350 - 450	Tulip Poplar	New York, United States	oldest tree of New York metropolitan area
Tree of Life, Bahrain	400	Mesquite	Bahrain	oldest tree of Bahrain
Endicott Pear	378	Pear	Massachusetts, United States	oldest fruit tree in the U.S.A.[10]

[edit] Clonal trees

As with all long-lived plant and fungal species, no individual part of a clonal colony is alive (in the sense of active metabolism) for more than a very small fraction of the life of the entire clone. Some clonal colonies may be fully connected via their root systems, while most are not actually interconnected, but are genetically identical clones which populated an area through vegetative reproduction. Ages for clonal colonies, often based on current growth rates, are estimates.^[11]

Name	Age (years)	Species	Location	Notes
Pando	80,000[12] - 1,000,000[13]	Quaking Aspen	Utah, United States	Covers 107 acres and has around 47,000 stems (average age 130 years), which continually die and are renewed by its roots. Is also the heaviest known organism, weighing 6,000 tonnes.
Old Tjikko	9,550	Norway Spruce	Dalarna, Sweden	The tree's stems live no more than 600 years, but its root system's age[14][15] was established using carbon dating and genetic matching.[16] Elsewhere in the Fulu mountains, 20 spruces have been found older than 8,000 years.[17]
?	5,000[18] - 10,000[19]	Huon Pine	Mount Read, Tasmania	Several genetically identical males that have reproduced vegetatively. Although single trees in this stand may be around 5,000 years old, the stand itself as a single organism has existed for 10,000 years.[20][21]

[edit] See also

• List of famous trees
• List of long-living organisms
• Veteran tree

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[edit] References

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