Posted on 04/24/2023 5:11:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years and is in the process of being recognized as the oldest in the world.
Known as the “Great Grandfather,” the trunk of this tree measuring 4 meters in diameter and 28 meters tall is also believed to contain scientific information that could shed light on how the planet has adapted to climatic changes.
Believed to be more than 5,000 years old, it is on the brink of replacing Methuselah, a 4,850-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine found in California in the United States, as the oldest tree on the planet. “It’s a survivor, there are no others that have had the opportunity to live so long,” said Antonio Lara, a researcher at Austral University.The Great Grandfather lies on the edge of a ravine in a forest in the southern Los Rios region, 800 kilometers to the south of the capital Santiago. It is a Fitzroya cupressoides, a type of cypress tree that is endemic to the south of the continent.
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Cut it down for a windmill or solar farm.
Michael Mann...of the ‘Hockey Shtick’ fame...
I used to live right near there. Rode my bike by that park many times. It was sad what that meth head did to that tree.
Some were sent to the US prior to commie takeover. The USDA sent saplings to nurseries around the country. My Grandfather had a nursery (founded 1929 and still in the family) and my Mom planted it in their backyard. It grew very tall and I climbed in it a lot as a kid.
Visiting a tree farm south of Albuquerque some years ago I was amazed to see another one (much smaller). The owner had gone to China when things opened up there and went to that valley and brought several more samples back. Those are the only two I’ve seen.
It’d probably make good firewood
Need a mighty big log splitter though
I live near the Methuselah, a 4,850-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine found in California and have seen it. Its exact location is now kept secret.
That would be make some nice rustic table tops.
just sayin
-- Rush Limbaugh
Pool cues, anyone?
Sort of one of *those* topics. Thanks nickcarraway.
Thanks nickcarraway.
Too much reaction wood and probably as a lot of internal checks.
I dont’ know...there are millions and millions of trees. How could they say this is the oldest one with any degree of certainty?
Mainau ...snip... is an island in Lake Constance (on the Southern shore of the Überlinger See near the city of Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany). It is maintained as a garden island and a model of excellent environmental practices... snip....
Mainau Island is a "flowering island" notable for its parks and gardens. Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, created the island's arboretum, which now contains 500 species of deciduous and coniferous trees, many exotic and valuable, including fine specimens of Sequoiadendron giganteum (1864) and Metasequoia glyptostroboides (1952).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rbol_del_Tule#/media/File:ArbordeTuleOaxaca_MX.jpg
El Árbol del Tule (Spanish for The Tree of Tule) is a tree located in the church grounds in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately 9 km (6 mi) east of the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), or ahuehuete (meaning "old man of the water" in Nahuatl). It has the stoutest tree trunk in the world.
n 2005, its trunk had a circumference of 42.0 m (137.8 ft), equating to a diameter of 14.05 m (46.1 ft),[2] an increase from a measurement of 11.42 m (37.5 ft) m in 1982.[3] However, the trunk is heavily buttressed, giving a higher diameter reading than the true cross-sectional of the trunk represents; when this is taken into account, the diameter of the 'smoothed out' trunk is 9.38 m (30.8 ft).[2] This is slightly wider than the next most stout tree known, a giant sequoia with a 8.90 m (29.2 ft) diameter.[4] The height is difficult to measure due to the very broad crown; the 2005 measurement, made by laser, is 35.4 m (116 ft),[2] shorter than previous measurements of 41–43 m (135–141 ft).[3]
#32 That looks like Paul Bunyan’s boot.
A leftwing nut job poisoned the Treaty Oak in Austin to make a love charm.
We should cut it down, cash those checks, and pay off the national debt!
I saw the Tule tree in 1957. It looked just as big then. I went to Oaxaca to see the restored ruins of the Zapotec and Mixtec cities of Monte Alban and Mitla. Monte Alban was on the top of a hill overlooking Oaxaca. It had several pyramids of the stepped verticle style seen in other restored Mexican sites. Mitla was very different. It has very horizontal construction with rectangular shapes and decoration.
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