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A 2,624-Year-Old Tree Has Just Been Found Growing in a Swamp in America
Science Alert ^ | 10 May 2019 | MICHELLE STARR

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: baldcypresstrees; blackriver; c14; godsgravesglyphs; jimstafford; northcarolina; radiocarbondating; rcdating; swampwitch; taxodiumdistichum; threesistersswamp
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To: Larry Lucido; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Larry Lucido. The snakes hang thick on the cypress trees like sausage on a smokehouse wall.

41 posted on 05/10/2019 11:54:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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42 posted on 05/11/2019 1:33:02 AM PDT by null and void (You can't normalize the type of behavior the left is trying to normalize because it isn't normal.)
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To: 9422WMR

Well, first they need to form a union.


43 posted on 05/11/2019 1:58:04 AM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: SunkenCiv

My, my. Jolted me back a few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB0SxXTR_UI
Swamp Witch - Jim Stafford


44 posted on 05/11/2019 2:08:59 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Songcraft

The older that Stalinist bitch gets, the more she looks like Larry King.


45 posted on 05/11/2019 2:58:35 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
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To: jimfr

I agree. After Hurricane Florence trees in my yard that were stripped of all leaves underwent a second spring in the same year.


46 posted on 05/11/2019 5:20:22 AM PDT by killermosquito (Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

:-)


(He's pushing 2,624 years old himself, isn't he?)

47 posted on 05/11/2019 8:03:25 AM PDT by Songcraft
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To: abb; null and void

I’m surprised no one has done a rap version of it. :^)


48 posted on 05/11/2019 9:53:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Good article, thanks.

I wonder why the 80,000 year old Utah Aspens don't qualify as the oldest tree(s)?

49 posted on 05/11/2019 10:52:44 AM PDT by blam
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To: rdl6989

Bookmark


50 posted on 05/11/2019 11:01:07 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: jimfr

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.


51 posted on 05/12/2019 8:02:05 AM PDT by TLOne (All terrorists want is for us to bow and worship their god. Oh, and to let them rule.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


52 posted on 05/12/2019 11:30:18 AM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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There are also underground fungal networks that spread over acres, and I wonder how old they can be?


53 posted on 05/12/2019 12:43:21 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
And, how tasty are they on pizza?

54 posted on 05/12/2019 1:58:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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