"Oldest tree in the world" found in Sweden (and it is no Eucalyptus!)

Ice Age, Blue Sky Studios, Scrat the Saber Toothed Squirrel / Origin of the 10000 year old Norway spruce Picea abies at Dalarna, Sweden, oldest Christmas Tree in the World by Leif Kullman at Umea University / Scrat, la ardilla de dientes de sable / El origen del Abeto de Noruega Picea abies de 10000 años de edad en Dalarna, Suecia, el Arbol de Navidad Mas Viejo del Mundo, por Leif Kullman, Universidad de Umea / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo(Click image to enlarge)

Scientists of Umeå University at Sweden have located the oldest Christmas Tree in the World. A 9,550 year old Norway spruce (Picea abies) in the Dalarna province of Sweden has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by Growing on the Edge of the ice cap between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.

10000 year old Norway spruce Picea abies at Dalarna, Sweden, oldest Christmas Tree in the World by Leif Kullman at Umea University / Abeto de Noruega Picea abies de 10000 años de edad en Dalarna, Suecia, el Arbol de Navidad Mas Viejo del Mundo, por Leif Kullman, Universidad de Umea / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo10000 year old Picea abies at Dalarna, Sweden. Photo courtesy Leif Kullman

Depending on the concept we keep of a tree this spruce dated via radiocarbon could be one of the fair contenders to the title of "Oldest living tree in the World".

Our friend Dan at 10000 Trees however compilates the case of Pando tree growing at Fish Lake National Forest in central Utah (USA), also known as The Trembling Giant, a clonal colony of Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) estimated (or claimed by some to be) 80,000 years old and formed by +45,000 genetically identical trunks that share the same massive root system spread over 47 hectares.

And what is this story doing in EUCALYPTOLOGICS, an Eucalyptus related weblog? Well, it is just an introduction to...

The oldest living Eucalyptus found in Australia
(stay tuned!)


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