5 Feb 2012

World's Oldest Trees

Bristlecone Pine 4200 years

Spruce or pine  is a tree of the family Pinaceae we can find it anywhere and anytime as long as the area's sandy calcareous soil, plenty of water or that have a high acidity. We can find this tree from Siberia, Scotland, Norway, the Canary Islands, the Philippines, to the corners of the Himalayas until New Zealand, Brazil and Chile.
This tree is famous because in addition to live elsewhere also have a very high selling power in the timber industry. All parts can be used starting spruce wood, sap, twigs, seeds until the leaves have an economic use of aliases is a commercial tree really 
Spruce is one of the most long-lived tree because it can reach the age of about 100-1000 years, and even record to be the oldest tree in the world through the pines of the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine species (Pinus longaeva) which in 2008 was 4840 years old! These trees range in height from 3-80 feet but the average height 15-45 meters. Tallest trees of Sugar Pine species, while the shortest is Potosi Pinyon pine and Siberian Dwarf Pine




Jomon Sugi 2000-7000 year

according to wikipedia, Jomon sugi is the oldest pine trees in Japan discovered in 1968, with a height of 25.3 meters with an estimated volume of 300 cubic meters was between 2000-7200 in Yakushima Island is located in the northernmost part of Japan's 40 minutes by air from Kagoshima Airport .
 










Norway Spruce 9550 in Ione
Only 4 feet tall, but a kind of pine tree, which still lives in Sweden, known 9550 years old. Life since the last ice age, the tree is listed as the oldest in the world today.
Ione Norway spruce tree species was discovered in 2004. the researchers found it in the bushes around the mountains at an altitude of 910 meters in the province of Dalarna, Sweden. This tree is not as rare as people often use as Christmas trees.
"He was a very long most likely triggered emampuannya clone yourself," says Leif Kullman, professor eologi and the environment at the University of Umea, Sweden. Twigs and branches, are known to survive for 600 years. Kullman explained, when the stem dies, the new shaft will be formed from the roots to be a very long age.
This tree is older than the Bristlecone pine in the White Mountain California is only 5000 years old. The oldest Bristlecone pines survive only up to 7,500 years, but grew towering up to 150 meters. If age is measured from the Bristlecone pine tree on the branches are monitored every year, old spruce in Sweden measured by radiocarbon trace their roots.Kullman stated that the tree is older than 9550 years it was virtually impossible. Therefore, all parts of Sweden may still ice covered at the time.



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