My coworkers on the mountain always thought it was wild when I told them there was a decent chance the Aspen glade we were in was all one tree.
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lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks agoi was there this summer! it’s not this particular trunk that’s 9000+ years old, but rather the entire organism. the current largest trunk is like 50 or so years old, but the ground cover is older and the root system is how they figured out the total age.
fun fact, the largest organism ever recorded is also a tree. it’s called (pando)[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)] and has 46000 stems stretching over 40ish hectares. it’s basically a forest of clones.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
any idea how they dated it?
Assman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Movie first, Saturday afternoon. Next it was a dinner date, and then board game night with her friends. You know, to make sure everyone is compatible.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
wikipedia says old Tjikko was carbon 14 dated.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Incredible, thanks for the explanation!