Thanks Larry Lucido. The snakes hang thick on the cypress trees like sausage on a smokehouse wall.
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.
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Thanks Larry Lucido. The snakes hang thick on the cypress trees like sausage on a smokehouse wall.
Well, first they need to form a union.
My, my. Jolted me back a few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB0SxXTR_UI
Swamp Witch - Jim Stafford
The older that Stalinist bitch gets, the more she looks like Larry King.
I agree. After Hurricane Florence trees in my yard that were stripped of all leaves underwent a second spring in the same year.
(He's pushing 2,624 years old himself, isn't he?)
I’m surprised no one has done a rap version of it. :^)
I wonder why the 80,000 year old Utah Aspens don't qualify as the oldest tree(s)?
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My sister, a botanist, discovered the largest known specimen of the Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens) in a North Carolina swamp. Unfortunately it is practically inaccessible except in the dead of a dry winter. A core has yet to be taken as there wasn’t a large enough device to do it on the east coast. A request to borrow a large one from out west has been made but those things move slowly.
I live near this river, and used to camp, fish and hunt this area of Black River in my younger years. It’s one of the most remarkably beautiful areas you can imagine. Also, there were a pair of Bald Cypress in the swamp about 2 and a half miles from where I live (about 40 miles from this preserve), but sadly, lightning took out one of them about 30 years ago. The one remaining was evaluated by a team from NC State Forestry Service and is estimated to be about nineteen hundred years old.
There are also underground fungal networks that spread over acres, and I wonder how old they can be?
And, how tasty are they on pizza?
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