Posted on 12/23/2009 7:12:57 AM PST by granite
A plant that started life during the last Ice Age is still going strong in the arid scrublands of California, scientists revealed today.
Researchers believe the Jurupa Oak has been around for 13,000 years, making it the oldest living plant in the world.
The oak is made up of a community of cloned bushes and scientists believe it has managed to survive the extreme effects of climate change by regenerating.
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I came to read about the tree and found a religious argument.
:sigh:
-——The tree CAN produce its own seeds-——
Not to be contentious but, the article says the acorns were infertile. Why the acorns are infertile is not stated.
My all American Chestnut trees produce infertile chestnuts if there is no pollen from another tree. Female flowers artificially pollinated produce fertile chestnuts while adjacent flowers not pollinated do not.
Also, those with blighted main stems produce new growth from the base. I never thought of this as clonal growth but as growth produced by extensive structure beneath the soil that is always blight free.
I’m afraid so, it’s frame four over and over and over again.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/calvinandhobbes1.jpg
Wow, in a tree-house, or what? ;’)
Pretty much a landmark in this area, lots of old, old pictures of it.
Hurricane Gustov split it just about down the center to the base.
It took a tree removal crew several weeks to remove it and grind the stump.
I estimate the trunk was approx 9'-10' across.
Have seen pictures of it from back in the mid 1800's and it was just a massive back then.
Still not used to not seeing it there.
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