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Bristlecone Pine 4200 years
Spruce or pine (pine) is a tree of the family Pinaceae that can be found anywhere and anytime as long as the area is calcareous sandy soil, plenty of water or that have a high acid content. We can find this tree from Siberia, Scotland, Norway, the Canary Islands, the Philippines, the Himalayas until the corners of New Zealand, Brazil and Chile.

This tree is famous because in addition to live everywhere also have a very high selling power in the timber industry. All parts of the tree can be used ranging from pine wood, sap, twigs, seeds until the leaves have an economic utility aliasnya commercial tree really
Pine tree 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 pine of the species Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) which in 2008 was 4840 years old!! The tree is between 3-80 meters high but average 15-45 meters high. The tallest tree species Sugar Pine while the shortest is Potosi Pinyon pine and Siberian Dwarf Pine

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Jomon Sugi 2000-7000 year
Jomon sugi is Japan's oldest cypress trees was found in 1968, with a height of 25.3 meters with a volume of 300 cubic meters estimated age between 2000-7200 years Yakushima Island is located in the northernmost part of Japan's 40-minute flight from Kagoshima airport.

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Ione Norway Spruce 9550 year
Only 4 feet tall, but a kind of pine tree, living in Sweden, known 9550 years old. Life since the last ice age, the tree is recorded as the oldest in the world today.

Ione Norway spruce tree species was discovered in 2004. the researchers found around the bush mountains at an altitude of 910 meters in the province of Dalarna, Sweden. This tree is not rare because people often use as a Christmas tree.

"He was a very long most likely triggered emampuannya clone themselves," says Leif Kullman, professor eologi and environment at the University of Umea, Sweden. Stems and branches are known to survive up to 600 years. Kullman explained, when the stem dies, a new stalk will be formed from the roots so age becomes very long.

This tree is older than Bristlecone pine in the White Mountain California are 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 branches are monitored every year, aged spruce in Sweden measured by radiocarbon trace their roots.

Kullman stated that trees older than 9550 years impossible. Therefore, all parts of Sweden may still ice covered at the time.




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