"Argghh, me doctor says it's made of oak and I said I told you I wanted a cypress knee then I run him through with me sword."
Posted on 05/10/2019 2:33:53 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Along the Black River in North Carolina, bald cypress trees have been quietly growing for millennia. Quite literally so: Scientists recently found trees over 2,000 years old - including one that is at least 2,624 years old.
Another nearby tree was found to be 2,088 years old - and geoscientists believe that more bald cypresses (Taxodium distichum) in the Three Sisters Swamp could be the same age or even older.
Surprisingly, a tree named BLK227 was found to be at least 2,624 years old. That makes it a seedling or sapling in 605 BCE - a timeframe that predates the Roman Empire by centuries, and the year Nebuchadnezzar II ascended to the throne of Babylon.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
Ping?
Time for all these old trees to give it up! Let the new trees get some of the sunlight and CO2!
Hatchet, axe and saw!!
“Swamps occur...large rivers where they are critically dependent upon
natural water level fluctuations. Other swamps occur on the
shores of large lakes.”
And then there is THE Swamp which occurs in the center of Washington DC. Inhabited by monstrous swamp creatures which are destructive, proliferators and are very difficult to remove.
"Argghh, me doctor says it's made of oak and I said I told you I wanted a cypress knee then I run him through with me sword."
My aunt bragged she had a rocking chair that went back to Louis the 16th. I told her I had a washer that went back to Sears the 14th.
“one that is at least 2,624 years old”
Bah! Just a youngster: “Bristlecone Pines Break 4,650-Year Growth Record”
Yes THAT Swamp
Rumor is Shelby the swamp logger is on his way to NC already with his dawg. :-)
on his way to NC already with his dawg.
The dog sniffs them out like truffles?
I have heard pigs do a better job?
I actually felt sadness for the loss and had it replaced the following year with another tree.
I've not gained an appreciation for them and the beauty the add to the landscape.
I can't imagine trees such as this being so old but yet I once saw a documentary on another tree somewhere that was reported as being the oldest tree in tree in the world.............Amazing stuff.
FIFY
Beat me. But I was going to ask, Which RINOpublican Senator?
We live in a 100-year-old house, on a lane that WAS lined with elm trees. We have the last one.
When our neighbor’s elms went, he said the air condition bill went from not much, to over $200.
The local historical society has a photo of the house and saplings circa 1920.
We give Mr Elm extra water in the hot weather.
They are like hitting a steel post with a bush hog and will puncture a tire.
We have cypress in a small wetland that my Dad planted as just sprigs, sticks really, nearly 50 years ago. They are about 70 feet tall in some cases. He planted pin oak, sycamore, sweetgum, maple, walnut and overcup oak the same way. They are all big trees now. The sycamore stand in the pasture like white sentinels in the winter moonlight.
I had to buy the homeplace to protect Dad’s legacy of trees. Not sure what happens when I am gone. Wish he had planted a forest on the 40 acres.
Are they bald because of their advanced age?
Are they bald because of their advanced age?
Although many conifers are evergreen, bald cypress trees are deciduous conifers that shed their needlelike leaves in the fall. In fact, they get the name “bald” cypress because they drop their leaves so early in the season. Their fall colors are tan, cinnamon, and fiery orange.
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Plants-and-Fungi/Bald-Cypress
Well, thank you very much Alice Cooper ...
You left out the part about the Algonquins....
LOL
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