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To: hattend

There are dozens of living trees known to be between 3,00 and 4,000 years old. In Sweden there is a spruce that has lived over 9,000 years.


21 posted on 06/04/2012 1:28:20 PM PDT by stormer
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So how has this rather puny looking Picea abies lived so long? Its ability to grow a new trunk when the old one dies is the main reason.

The Worlds Oldest Organism.link

29 posted on 06/04/2012 3:02:06 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (')
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To: stormer
There are dozens of living trees known to be between 3,00 and 4,000 years old. In Sweden there is a spruce that has lived over 9,000 years.

The other trees call him pøps

41 posted on 06/05/2012 7:23:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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