behold the ancient giants! 🌲

Hi comrades!

Today i'm gonna talk about the ancient ones, those who resist the passage of time, they have seen many empires fall, and to this day they still don't resign themselves to falling into oblivion.

To begin this journey i introduce to you the oldest three on earth called "Old Tjikko" believe or not this three is a 9.560 years old norway spruce 😲

Old Tjikko

How did it survive? the answer is vegetative cloning. The remaining standing three has about 4.000 years old, but the entire three has nearly 9.560 years old. The age of the three was determinated by carbon dating.

The next oldie is called "Matusalen" a Pinus longaeva with 5.048 years old, is the oldest known living non-clonal organism on earth.

Matusalen

To finish, Chile is not left behind in this race of time, we have our lovely Fitzroya cupressoides, also known as Lahuán or Alerce, this is the oldest three in Chile with  3.500 years old, and whose trunk is 4.26 meters in diameter, a millenial witness, think about it, when columbus arrived to america he was nearly 3.000 years old, and he stayed that way, standing, with his inner peace intact to this day, and it's our duty to keep it that way.

  National park Alerce costero, The millenial Lahuán

See you later in another post.
Bye ✌

Comments

  1. Very interesting post, I never imagined that a one tree could be so old!! I really enjoy reading your post!

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  2. those guys are older than jesus, nice

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  3. Really interesting, Keep it up ;)

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