Members of the Champion Tree Project International recently bequeathed, as a Christmas gift, to the Washington National Cathedral, a seedling. Giving the gift of a seedling is cute, but what makes this seedling so special is that it germinated from a pinecone dropped by "Methuselah", a particular bristlecone pine tree growing at an altitude of 11,200 feet in the White Mountains near the California-Nevada border. This tree currently holds the distinction of being the oldest known living tree in the world at 4,770 years. Cool! (Yahoo News Story)
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Re: Methuselah's Baby
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plracing
on Tue 13 Dec 2005 06:15 PM EST | Profile | Permanent Link
"what makes this seedling so special is that it germinated from a pinecone dropped by "Methuselah"
Cool! Rolling Cones! Tom Re: Methuselah's Baby
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briwei
on Thu 15 Dec 2005 10:49 AM EST | Profile | Permanent Link
Almost 5000 years old and still makin' abies. Now that's some STRONG genes! ;-)
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