[PAR35]

End the doubt. Cut it down and count the rings.

[silent majority rising]

I saw that movie. It was named Avatar.

[crusty old prospector]

I am sure that if the tree could talk, it would tell us they we are killing the planet with our internal combustion engines. Algore is the only one who can save us all.

[Rurudyne]

I think the meant its thick bark, not the trunk.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[Tijeras_Slim]

In the Sandia’s (east of Albuquerque) there are the “medallion trees”. Ponderosa pines that an unknown person took small cores and counted the rings. They then plugged the core hole and applied a medallion with a historical event that occurred the year it germinated.

Kind of cool to see a ponderosa of moderate size with a medallion saying “First performance of Hamlet”.

[Fungi]

Amazing, five thosand year old treees but the earth is supposedly billions of years old and man has been around for a few hundred million. Notice any incongruity here?

[Gay State Conservative]

A few years ago I went to see “The Senator” in Florida.It’s said to have been about 3,000 years old...before it was killed by a junkie who set it on fire.

[rottndog]

The oldest tree in the world was a Bristlecone Pine in CA...it was living well until it was killed by none other than Michael Mann....

[healy61]

Shortly after WWII, a valley in China contained 5 Metasequoia trees. They were evident from the fossil record, but thought extinct for millions of years. Somehow, and no locals know how, three ended up in a yard in our small town. They reach 200 feet. One was about 100 feet with a 10 foot trunk.

[cp124]

Cut it down for a windmill or solar farm.

[Inyo-Mono]

I live near the Methuselah, a 4,850-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine found in California and have seen it. Its exact location is now kept secret.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

That would be make some nice rustic table tops.

just sayin

[Paal Gulli]

"The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down."

-- Rush Limbaugh

Pool cues, anyone?

[DouglasKC]

I dont’ know...there are millions and millions of trees. How could they say this is the oldest one with any degree of certainty?

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Thanks Nick. There are trees that you use for lumber and forests and trees you enjoy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rbol_del_Tule#/media/File:ArbordeTuleOaxaca_MX.jpg

El Árbol del Tule (Spanish for The Tree of Tule) is a tree located in the church grounds in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately 9 km (6 mi) east of the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), or ahuehuete (meaning "old man of the water" in Nahuatl). It has the stoutest tree trunk in the world.

n 2005, its trunk had a circumference of 42.0 m (137.8 ft), equating to a diameter of 14.05 m (46.1 ft),[2] an increase from a measurement of 11.42 m (37.5 ft) m in 1982.[3] However, the trunk is heavily buttressed, giving a higher diameter reading than the true cross-sectional of the trunk represents; when this is taken into account, the diameter of the 'smoothed out' trunk is 9.38 m (30.8 ft).[2] This is slightly wider than the next most stout tree known, a giant sequoia with a 8.90 m (29.2 ft) diameter.[4] The height is difficult to measure due to the very broad crown; the 2005 measurement, made by laser, is 35.4 m (116 ft),[2] shorter than previous measurements of 41–43 m (135–141 ft).[3]

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