fighting the elderly

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• TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Silly question but what would it look like if you cut the tree? Would it have so many rings that it’s essentially a solid color? Do trees stop growing rings at a certain point?

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i 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.

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    • TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Incredible, thanks for the explanation!

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    • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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    • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      any idea how they dated it?

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  • walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This type of spruce produces needles instead of rings. So there are 9,000+ needles on the tree, and they add on a hundred or so years to account for people picking them off in passing.

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    • jaemo@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only 1000 more till it reaches cactaur status!

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    • TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      🤯

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Will fight your grandpa for last slice then post on TikTok for likes from tweens

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