World's oldest plant is 13,000-year-old oak that survives by cloning itself.

Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 1:21 PM on 23rd December 2009 | By Claire Bates

[SunkenCiv]

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Oy Vay!

I came to read about the tree and found a religious argument.

:sigh:

[blam]

My son lives here:

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[bert]

-——The tree CAN produce its own “seeds”-——

Not to be contentious but, the article says the acorns were infertile. Why the acorns are infertile is not stated.

My all American Chestnut trees produce infertile chestnuts if there is no pollen from another tree. Female flowers artificially pollinated produce fertile chestnuts while adjacent flowers not pollinated do not.

Also, those with blighted main stems produce new growth from the base. I never thought of this as clonal growth but as growth produced by extensive structure beneath the soil that is always blight free.

[SunkenCiv]

I’m afraid so, it’s frame four over and over and over again.

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[SunkenCiv]

Wow, in a tree-house, or what? ;’)

[The Cajun]

There was an old oak, about like that one, where the Chacahoula/Brule Guillott road, Hwy 309, met up with Hwy 1.

Pretty much a landmark in this area, lots of old, old pictures of it.

Hurricane Gustov split it just about down the center to the base.

It took a tree removal crew several weeks to remove it and grind the stump.

I estimate the trunk was approx 9'-10' across.

Have seen pictures of it from back in the mid 1800's and it was just a massive back then.

Still not used to not seeing it there.