In 1997, Julia Hill set a record for the stay on the tree.Thus she wanted to draw public attention to the problem of forest conservation.How it achieved this goal - is unknown, but the red giant tree from being cut down, she managed to save.It is worth knowing that the plants do not suffer from age-related diseases, unlike humans.Over time, one part can die, and the other - to grow over the centuries.
Probably each of us in childhood were told that some species can live for hundreds of years.However, not even all the adults know that the oldest tree has an age of almost 10, 000 years.In Sweden, on the mountain spruce grows Pul Old Tjikko, whose age has been calculated by scientists.When I first started talking about it, the age of the tree was "only" a few thousand years.Certainly, its trunk is periodically updated, but the roots of the plants born 100 centuries ago.
question that scientists have for a long time could not answer how the oldest tree in the world could go through all the climatic changes in the world, found its explanation in the fact that Old Tjikko die on a certain period of time and under the right conditionssprout again.That is what caused the inaccuracy of the first judgment of the scientists aged spruce.
Until the forties of the twentieth century it was a trunk that stood out against the backdrop of a small green.At the same time, a favorable change in weather conditions led to the tree began to grow again.
Until such time as that defined the exact age of spruce, the oldest tree in the world was represented by pine Methuselah.It grows in the National Reserve of California, but the exact location is kept secret from the public.But we know that it grows at an altitude of more than three thousand meters above sea level.The name of the plant was named after the biblical character, the way that the Earth was 969 years old.Currently Methuselah neklonnirovannym considered the oldest living organism on Earth.According to scientists, his life began in 2831 BC.e.
Some researchers, as a candidate for the title of "the oldest tree on earth", put forward intermountain pine Prometheus.It grows on Mount Wheeler Peak in the United States.Presumably this plant was more than 5000 years, but the exact age has remained a mystery.It was found in 1958, naturalists, and who named it in honor of the mythological character of Prometheus.
In 1963, Donald Curry, researcher, came to the area to study the plant world.Here he described natyknulsya on the oldest tree and gave it a name - WPN - 114. Applying the technology of the time, scientists have shown that the plant is not less than 3-4 thousand years.In 1964, D. Curry, with the consent of the US Forest Service (USFS), cut down a pine tree and divides into parts that later were sent to different laboratories.Currently, part of Prometheus can be seen in a variety of American museums.And in the place where there were the oldest tree is now only a stump left.For what purpose the scientist took to destroy the whole plant - is unknown.
