Niklas Pollard; 11/4/08
Scientists have found a cluster of spruces in the mountains in western Sweden which, at an age of 8000 years, may be the world’s oldest living trees. The hardy Norway spruces were found perched high on a mountain side where they have remained safe from recent dangers such as logging, but exposed to the harsh weather conditions of the mountain range that separates Norway and Sweden. Carbon dating of the trees carried out at a laboratory in Miami, Florida, showed the oldest of them first set root about 8000 years ago, making it the world’s oldest known living tree, Umea University Professor Leif Kullman said.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23526630-12335,00.html
Tags: Environment, Global