5 Feb 2012
World's Oldest Trees
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
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