good informative stuff Alan, wiki says that the Pando colony seems to be the largest living organism known having a huge underground interconnected root network

it does have a name; Methuselah. The oldest living Bristlecone pine that is. There was one older, but it was killed by the team taking its core sample.

Nah! Mr. Marble, do not kill a good story. We need here at Scandinavia good PR especially in forestry domain; we are living trough forestry industry... So I am gonna share this article forward anyway... Swedish are always played dirty with their national and international PR-stunts... They are selling this tree as "the eldest spruce in the world": http://sciencenordic.com/oldest-spruce-northern-europe-532-years-old That spruce being 532 years old. However we have this fine pine here at Finland... confirmed to be of 780 years [!!] old: http://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2015/11/11/suomen-vanhin-puu-yha-pystyssa Ok, they both are old ones.

Look at the big brain on brian marble, thanks for the enlightenment dude

Would that mean that at least part of the root system is thousands of years old?

Good points. However, they did say "the oldest living tree" and not "the oldest living individual tree". I think one should include Pando as a "tree" because I don't think there is decent justification not to do so, considering it is all one organism. If it is connected beneath the earth, it is several trees, but if it is connected above the Earth, it is one tree? Disagree. Pando doesn't get the recognition it deserves. It is anywhere from 80k to 800k years old and the heaviest single organism on Earth. Stop the arbitrary discrimination against Pando! =P

One of my many lamps I make out of Ancient Cedar IMG_7795.jpg

Interesting. Thank you. Funny I have a tomato plant that is nearly two years old then. The original plant just frozde out but I still have a green stem rooting from it. Love how that works.

It is not uncommon for a writer use a misleading topic phrase to entice one to read further. Thank for for explaining the system that has allow this organism to become 9,500 by rejuvenation.

My instincts told me it couldn't be true. Authors will usually by stretching the truth in the top phrase to entice a reader to continue to read. Thank for the information.

it is part of an older root system which dates back thousands of years. The trunk of the tree may die and regrow multiple times, but the tree's root system remains intact and in turn sprouts another trunk

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Dear God, it's a Doctor Who tree - it regenerates!

Never heard of any species of spruce capable of sprouting out of its roots once it's lost its green top.

Wouldn't the roots be 9,500 years old?

Thanks for the info! Hope Bored Panda paid attention.

Would that mean that you

These trolls also say that it's not the same tree because the cells are not the same as the original. Duh, These trolls, such as Alan are not respectably skeptical and will go beyond stupidity.

Very good points made. Anyone can see that the actual part of the tree shown in the photos above is no more than a few hundreds years old. In the article they did "misleading" not say "the oldest? living individual clonal tree". As for tree clones, there are much older such organisms. For example, the Pando ("trembling giant") is a clonal tree colony made up of more than 40,000 individual quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) trees, located in Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah USA, the colony is estimated to be an astounding 80,000 years old. According to National Geographic a "1,075-Year-Old Pine Named ‘Adonis’ Is Europe’s Oldest-Known Living Tree". This "Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii) growing in the highlands of northern Greece has been dendrocronologically dated to be more than 1,075 years old, living since the time of the Vikings..."

The oldest single growth trees are Bristlecone Pine trees which two have been found to be almost 5,000 years old or just over.

I thought some of the giant sequoias in California were upwards of 2,000 years old.