[SunkenCiv]

Now these fossils are 380,000,087 years old.

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"Did you ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible!"

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield.

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[Hegemony Cricket]

I knew that tree was going to be here a long time, because it had a really big trunk...

[colorcountry]

I thought you meant the earth oldest LIVING tree, the Bristlecone Pine.

[Bon mots]

I have a Sciadopitys verticillata in my yard. It’s a living fossil like a Gingko Biloba.

When my friends with small children come over I tell them that I have a dinosaur living in the backyard and show them the tree.

It is the sole member of the family Sciadopityaceae and genus Sciadopitys, a living fossil with no close relatives, and known in the fossil record for about 230 million years.

I bought it because it looks cool and my wife hates Gingkos.