AT 5,000 YEARS OLD, ANCIENT CYPRESS IN CHILE MAY BE WORLD'S OLDEST TREE
( life / environment / trees )

In 1993, a cypress tree stump in Chile was confirmed by tree-ring-counting as 3,622 years new, showing the capacity of these slow-growing relatives of sequoia to endure through centuries. However, another scientist recently found that a living individual, known as the millennium... ww... read more