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The plant is considered a living fossil. Radiocarbon dating has confirmed that many individuals have lived longer than 1,000 years, and some are suspected to be older than 2,000 years. [citation needed] Old Tjikko, the world's oldest known Norway spruce in Sweden, continues via vegetative cloning. [66]
It is the oldest known living (non-clonal) tree in the world. [11] Alerce Milenario or Gran Abuelo: 3,653–5,484 1,630+ BCE: Patagonian cypress Fitzroya cupressoides: Cordillera Pelada, Los Ríos: Chile: Alive. [11] [12] New unconfirmed estimation of 5,484 years would make it the oldest (non-clonal) tree in the world. [13]
Old Tjikko originally gained fame as the "world's oldest tree". [1] Old Tjikko is, however, a clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over millennia rather than an individual tree of great age. Old Tjikko is recognized as the oldest living Picea abies and the fourth-oldest known clonal tree.
A Palmer oak in Jurupa Valley is estimated to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old. The plant, which looks like a sprawling, dark green shrub, is now at the center of a development battle.
King Clone is thought to be the oldest creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert. The ring is estimated to be 11,700 years old, making it one of the oldest living organisms on Earth . This single clonal colony plant of Larrea tridentata reaches up to 67 feet (20 metres) in diameter, with an average diameter of 45 feet (14 m).
The Oldest Living Organism Is Over 2 Billion Years Old Scientists have identified the oldest living species on Earth is a deep sea organism that hasn't evolved in more than two billion years.
The oldest known plant (possibly oldest living thing) is a clonal Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) tree colony in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah called Pando at about 16,000 years. Lichen , a symbiotic algae and fungal proto-plant, such as Rhizocarpon geographicum can live upwards of 10,000 years.
The Japanese woman became the oldest living person in August after the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas Morera Tomiko Itooka, World’s Oldest Living Person, Dies at 116: ‘Gave Us Courage and ...