Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The oldest tree...
Sometime around 7542 B.C., a spruce tree started growing on Fulu Mountain in Sweden. It is still growing. Spruce trees can produce exact clones of themselves, and while the currently visible part of the tree is not 9,550 years old, scientists found pieces of wood beneath it that are that old with exactly the same genetic makeup as the above-ground part of the tree. --as reported in The New York Times, April 18, 2008
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4 comments:
that's one old tree.
Thanks Mr. Wizard!! Now tell me...Why is the sky blue?
Kris
If you made furniture out of that tree, would it be an antique?
well, aren't you all just a barrel of laughs. I thought it was interesting...next time I'll keep it to myself.
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