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The Oldest Living Trees On Earth

The document discusses the oldest living trees in the world. It identifies two categories - continuously standing trees that have grown from a single seed and trunk, with the oldest being a Great Basin bristlecone pine over 4,800 years old. The second category is trees with cloning ability that can regrow from their rootstock, with a quaking aspen colony in Utah estimated to be up to 1 million years old, making it the oldest known living organism. The document also provides photos and descriptions of these oldest trees.

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The Oldest Living Trees On Earth

The document discusses the oldest living trees in the world. It identifies two categories - continuously standing trees that have grown from a single seed and trunk, with the oldest being a Great Basin bristlecone pine over 4,800 years old. The second category is trees with cloning ability that can regrow from their rootstock, with a quaking aspen colony in Utah estimated to be up to 1 million years old, making it the oldest known living organism. The document also provides photos and descriptions of these oldest trees.

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The Oldest Living Trees on Earth

Lets start from the top on this subject, first of all there are several ways that trees can be classified as the oldest living; 1. Continuously standing trees, those that have grown from seed, produced a trunk that is still alive. 2. Cloning new growth ability, these trees have grown from seed, produced trunks which may have died, but produce new stems from the same root stock. The names of the oldest living trees in the world;

Continuously standing trees


These are trees that have grown from seed, produced one, or more trunk(s) that at least one is still alive. This is the more common perception of the oldest living tree. Oldest Living Tree; Individual Tree Name; Methuselah Species Name; Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) Location; California, United States Age; 4,841 years old in 2010 Estimated germination year; 2832 BC

Trees with cloning ability


These are trees that have started growing from a single seed, produced trunks, which may have died, but has continued to stay alive by growing new trunks from the same root stock. So even though trunks may come and go over time, as long as the original rootstock remains alive, the tree is still living. These trees have proven to be the oldest living organisms on earth. Oldest Living Tree; Individual Tree Name; Pando Species Name; Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) Location; Utah, United States Age; 80,000 to 1 million years

Photo of a Methuselah Grove, (not showing the actual tree, as its location is secret) in the Inyo National Forest, California, USA. Photo by Oke on 15 August 2004

Photo of the Pando clone colony of a single male Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) located in Utah, USA. All the clone trunks are determined to be part of a single living organism by identical genetic markers and are all connected by one continuous large underground root system.

Deer Resistant Trees

Deer are often the cause of damage to trees by two ways, eating or rubbing or both. Damage to landscape trees has become an increasing issue because of rising deer population, and the spreading of suburban development into the deer's natural habitat. There are restrictions on deer hunting and there are decreasing amounts of natural predators that are partly the cause of these increased deer populations. Gardeners and landscapers may have to consider different methods to prevent deer damage. One solution is to use deer resistant trees, or deer proof trees. There are very few trees that are entirely deer resistant. However, some trees are less attractive to deer than others. One of the other best prevention methods against deer damage is a fence, however this may be impractical in some situations.

The most aesthetically pleasing way to combat the deer damage problem is to landscape with deer resistant plants. There are several reasons a plant can be deer resistant. Many plants are poisonous at some point during their growth stage, and some of the most deer resistant are poisonous at all

times. The taste and digestibility also vary with plant age, growth stage and time of year. When planning landscapes with trees, perennials and ornamental trees, it is important to research their attractiveness to deer in order to avoid browsing damage when the cold season arrives. List of deer resistant trees, sorted by common name

Name
Allegheny Serviceberry American Holly Aquipernyi Holly Arizona Ash Austrian Pine Bald Cypress Black Locust Brush Cherry California Wax Myrtle Canada Hemlock Catalina Ironwood Chinaberry Tree Chinese Fringe Tree Chinese Paper Birch Colorado Blue Spruce Common Flowering Quince Common Sassafras Corkscrew Willow Date Palm Dawn Redwood Deodar Cedar Douglas Fir Downy Serviceberry Dracaena Palm Dwarf Alberta Spruce Eastern Red Cedar Eastern White Pine Edible Fig English Hawthorn

Scientific Name
Amelanchier laevis Ilex opaca Ilex x aquipernyi Fraxinus velutina Pinus nigra Taxodium distichum Robinia pseudoacacia Syzygium paniculatum Myrica californica Tsuga canadensis Lyonothamnus floribundus Melia azedarach Chionanthus retusus Betula albo-sinensis Picea pungens Chaenomeles speciosa Sassafras albidurn Salix matsudana tortuosa Phoenix dactylifera Metasequoia glyptostroboides Cedrus deodara Pseudotsuga menziesii Amelanchier arborea Cordyline australis Picea glauca 'Conica' Juniperus virginiana Pinus strobus Ficus carica Crataegus laevigata

European Ash European Beech European White Birch False Cypress Fig Fir Flameleaf Sumac Flowering Dogwood Ginkgo Goldenrain Tree Gordonia Green Ash Hawthorn Heritage Birch Himalayan Birch Himalayan Dogwood Honey Locust Japanese Black Pine Japanese Cedar Japanese Falsecypress Japanese Flowering Cherry Japanese Maple Japanese Red Pine Katsura Tree Kousa Dogwood Leyland Cypress Mescal Bean Mexican Blue Palm Mimosa Norway Maple Norway Spruce Paper Birch Paperbark Maple Pawpaw Persimmon Pine Pitch Pine

Fraxinus excelsior Fagus sylvatica Betula pendula Chamaecyparis obtusa Ficus Abies Rhus lanceolata Cornus florida Ginkgo biloba Koelreuteria paniculata Gordonia lisianthus Fraxinus pennsylvanica Crataegus Betula nigra 'Heritage' Betula jacquemontii Cornus capitata Gleditsia triacanthos Pinus thunbergiana Cryptomeria japonica Chamaecyparis pisifera Prunus serrulata Acer palmatum Pinus densiflora Cercidiphyllum japonicum Cornus kousa Cupressocyparis x leylandii Sophora secundiflora Erythea armata Albizia julibrissin Acer platanoides Picea abies Betula papyrifera Acer griseurn Asimina triloba Diospyros virginiana Pinus Pinus rigida

Ponytail Palm Red Maple Red Pine River Birch Roughleaf Dogwood Ruby Horsechestnut Russian Olive Scotch Pine Serbian Spruce Shadbush Silver Maple Soapbark Tree Sourwood Southern Magnolia Spruce Striped Maple Sugar Maple Sweetgum Texas Persimmon Tulip Tree White Spruce Windmill Palm Yellow Birch

Beaucarnea recurvata Acer rubrum Pinus resinosa Betula nigra Cornus drummondii Aesculus x carnea Elaeagnus angustifolia Pinus sylvestris Picea omorika Amelanchier canadensis Acer saccharinum Quillaja saponaria Oxydendrum arboreum Magnolia grandiflora Picea Acer pensylvanicum Acer saccharum Liquidambar styraciflua Diospyros texana Liriodendron tulipifera Picea glauca Trachycarpus fortunei Betula lutea

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