Norway Spruce
Posted on 04/12/2008 10:35:19 AM PDT by blam
World’s oldest, 8,000 years old tree found in Sweden
April 10th, 2008 - 11:23 pm ICT
RIA Novosti
Stockholm, April 10 (RIA Novosti) Scientists in northern Sweden believe they have discovered the world’s oldest living tree dating back nearly 8,000 years, local media said Thursday. A Norway spruce, which was found growing at a height of 950 metres above sea level, is more than two metres (6.5 feet) tall and about 20 centimeters (8 inches) in width.
Shortly after the discovery, scientists sent samples from the tree to a laboratory in Miami, US, and were amazed to learn that the tree was 7,800 years old.
Lars Hedlund, a local councillor from Dalecarlia where the tree was found, told Swedish Radio that the tree was one of the first to grow following the end of the ice age.
The Norway spruce is one of the most common spruces, often used as Christmas trees.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest living tree is 4,768 years old and is a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine “Methuselah” located in the White Mountains of California. RIA Novosti
The original article from MSNBC couldn't be posted, it is linked here though.
GGG Ping.
Norway Spruce
6.5 feet tall and 8 inches wide and they want us to believe it is 8000 years old? Right, cut the sucker in half and ocunt the rings. Probably closer to eight eyars old.
Pine makes some good wood for furniture and veneer. Maybe someone should chop it down. What a harvest!!
As an citizens of California, I demand a recount.
"I planted it."
“And the seedlings. They never write. They never call. Hey!, you seedlings, get off my copse!”
Chop this tree down. It’s blocking my solar panels and the great view of the river. n
Did they clear cut it and count the rings?
6.5 feet tall, with 1,400 miles of roots.
Don't you dare. I'm saving them for violins.
Did "Little Ice Age" Create Stradivarius Violins' Famous Tone?
Impossible. I have it on good authority that the world is only 5,000 years old.
There’s no way. A six foot spruce? In northern Sweden? That would put it close to the polar circle.
the larch.
the larch.
your beeber needs to be re-stuned.
I heard there’s an 8,000 year old Spotted Owl living in it.
Well if their six footer is 8000 years old, why yours msut be 1 zillion years old.
Sources tell me that their using metric years.
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