This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual tree vary. In addition, tree ages are derived from a variety of sources, including documented "tree-ring" ( dendrochronological) count core samples, and from estimates. For these reasons, this article presents three lists of "oldest trees," each using varying criteria. There are three tables of trees, which are listed by age and

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

. The first table includes trees for which a minimum age has been directly determined, either through counting or cross-referencing

tree rings Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree. As well as dating them, this can give data for dendroclimatology, the study of climate ...

or through

radiocarbon dating Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for Chronological dating, determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of carbon-14, radiocarbon, a radioactive Isotop ...

. Many of these trees may be even older than their listed ages, but the oldest wood in the tree has rotted away. For some old trees, so much of the center is missing that their age cannot be directly determined. Instead, estimates are made based on the tree's size and presumed growth rate. The second table includes trees with these estimated ages. The last table lists

clonal colonies A clonal colony or genet is a group of genetically identical individuals, such as plants, fungi, or bacteria, that have grown in a given location, all originating vegetatively, not sexually, from a single ancestor. In plants, an individual in ...

in which no individual tree trunks may be remarkably old but in which the organism as a whole is thought to be very old. The current record-holders for individual, non-clonal trees are the

Great Basin bristlecone pine ''Pinus longaeva'' (commonly referred to as the Great Basin bristlecone pine, intermountain bristlecone pine, or western bristlecone pine) is a long-living species of bristlecone pine tree found in the higher mountains of California, Nevada, and ...

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California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

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Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...

, in the United States. Through tree-ring cross-referencing, they have been shown to be almost five millennia old. A clonal colony can survive for much longer than an individual tree. A colony of 48,000

quaking aspen ''Populus tremuloides'' is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen. It is commonly called quaking aspen,

trees (nicknamed Pando), covering in the

Fishlake National Forest Fishlake National Forest is a United States National Forest, U.S. National Forest located in south central Utah. The namesake for the forest is Fish Lake (Utah), Fish Lake, the largest freshwater mountain lake in the state. Wildlife Animals tha ...

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, is considered one of the oldest and largest organisms in the world. Recent estimates set the colony's age at several thousand (up to 16,000) years, although tree ring samples date individual stems at rarely more than 130 years. A colony of

Huon pine ''Lagarostrobos franklinii'' is a species of conifer native to the wet southwestern corner of Tasmania, Australia. It is often known as the Huon pine or Macquarie pine, although it is actually a podocarp (Podocarpaceae), not a true pine (Pinacea ...

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Mount Read (Tasmania) Mount Read is a mountain located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia, and is at the north west edge of the West Coast Range. With an elevation of above sea level, Mount Read has had as colourful a history, similar to that of Mo ...

is estimated to be around 10,000 years old, as determined by

DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of al ...

samples taken from

pollen Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction. It consists of pollen grains (highly reduced Gametophyte#Heterospory, microgametophytes), which produce male gametes (sperm ...

collected from the sediment of a nearby lake. Individual trees in this group date to no more than 4,000 years old, as determined by tree ring samples.

Non-clonal trees with verified ages

Non-clonal trees with estimated ages

Note: The ages of the trees in this list are speculative and only serve as estimates. ,

Cordillera Pelada Cordillera Pelada (Spanish for Bald Range or Barren Range) is a mountain range in southern Los Ríos Region, southern Chile. It is located along the Pacific coast and forms part of the larger Chilean Coast Range. It got its name ''pelada'' from th ...

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Llangernyw Yew The Llangernyw Yew () is an ancient yew (''Taxus baccata'') in the village of Llangernyw, Conwy County Borough, Conwy, Wales. The tree is fragmented and its core part has been lost, leaving several enormous offshoots. The girth of the tree at the ...

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Common yew ''Taxus baccata'' is a species of evergreen tree in the family Taxaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe and Southern Europe, as well as Northwest Africa, and parts of Southwest Asia.Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe'' ...

Taxus baccata ''Taxus baccata'' is a species of evergreen tree in the family (botany), family Taxaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe and Southern Europe, as well as Northwest Africa, and parts of Southwest Asia.Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Bri ...

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Llangernyw Llangernyw () is a rural, mostly Welsh-speaking, village and community in Conwy County Borough, North Wales. Overview At the 2011 census, the community had a population of 1,079 of whom 63.7 percent were Welsh speakers. The comparable figures ...

Conwy Conwy (, ), previously known in English as Conway, is a walled market town, community and the administrative centre of Conwy County Borough in North Wales. The walled town and castle stand on the west bank of the River Conwy, facing Deganwy ...

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Great British Trees The Great British Trees were 50 trees selected by The Tree Council in 2002 to spotlight trees in the United Kingdom in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee. England Western England * Tortworth Chestnut in Tortworth, Gloucestershire * W ...

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Sarv-e Abarkuh The Cypress of Abarkuh ( ''Sarv-e Abarkuh''), also called the Zoroastrian Sarv, is a Persian cypress (''Cupressus sempervirens'') tree in Abarkuh in Yazd Province of Iran. It is protected by the Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran as a natio ...

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Mediterranean cypress ''Cupressus sempervirens'', the Mediterranean cypress (also known as Italian cypress, Tuscan cypress, Persian cypress, or pencil pine), is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Iran. While some studies show it ha ...

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Abarkuh Abarkuh () is a city in the Central District of Abarkuh County, Yazd province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Etymology A folk etymology of the name Abarquh, related by Hamdallah Mustawfi in 1340, is from '' ...

Yazd Yazd (; ) is a city in the Central District of Yazd County, Yazd province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. At the 2016 census, its population was 529,673. Since 2017, the historical city of Yazd is rec ...

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Gümeli Porsuğu Gümeli Porsuğu is a yew tree (''Taxus baccata'') growing high in Zonguldak district of Black Sea Region, in Turkey. As of 2019, it was estimated to be 4,115 years old. The region where the tree is located was included within the borders of Güm ...

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Olive The olive, botanical name ''Olea europaea'' ("European olive"), is a species of Subtropics, subtropical evergreen tree in the Family (biology), family Oleaceae. Originating in Anatolia, Asia Minor, it is abundant throughout the Mediterranean ...

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Fortingall Yew The Fortingall Yew is an ancient European yew (''Taxus baccata'') in the churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland. Considered one of the oldest trees in Britain, modern estimates place its age at an average of 5,000 years ...

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Cariniana legalis ''Cariniana legalis'' is a species of emergent rainforest tree in the Monkeypot family Lecythidaceae. It is found in the Atlantic forest of south-eastern Brazil, where is known as jequitibá-branco or jequitibá-rosa, and possibly found in Co ...

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conifer Conifers () are a group of conifer cone, cone-bearing Spermatophyte, seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the phylum, division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a sin ...

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Vassununga State Park The Vassununga State Park () is a state park in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It preserves an area of interior Atlantic Forest and ''cerrado'', including a huge ''jequitibá-rosa'' (''Cariniana legalis'') tree that by some accounts is the oldest ...

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Cinnamomum camphora ''Camphora officinarum'' is a species of evergreen tree indigenous to warm temperate to subtropical regions of East Asia, including countries such as China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. It is known by various names, most notably the camph ...

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Mother of the Forest Mother of the Forest was a Sequoiadendron_giganteum, giant sequoia in the Sierra Nevada that was stripped of its bark and used as an exhibition tree. Discovered in 1852 by Augustus T. Dowd, it was the second largest tree in Calaveras_Big_Trees_ ...

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Calaveras Big Trees State Park Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving two groves of Sequoiadendron giganteum, giant sequoia trees. Located 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Arnold, California in the middle elevations of the S ...

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Japanese cedar ''Cryptomeria'' (literally "hidden parts") is a monotypic genus of conifer in the cypress family Cupressaceae. It includes only one species, ''Cryptomeria japonica'' ( syn. ''Cupressus japonica'' L.f.). It is considered to be endemic to Japan, ...

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Jōmon Sugi is a large ''Cryptomeria'' tree (yakusugi) located on Yakushima, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Japan. It is the oldest and largest among the old-growth cryptomeria trees on the island, and is estimated to be between 2,170 and 7,200 years o ...

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Yakushima is one of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The island, in area, has a population of 13,178. It is accessible by hydrofoil ferry, car ferry, or by air to Yakushima Airport. Administratively, the island consists of the town ...

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Ballyconnell Ballyconnell () is a town in County Cavan, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is situated on the N87 road (Ireland), N87 national secondary road at the junction of four townlands: Annagh, County Cavan, Annagh, Cullyleenan, Doon (Tomregan) and Der ...

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Kolymvari Kolymvari (), also known as Kolymbari (), is a coastal town at the southeastern end of the Rodopou peninsula on the Gulf of Chania. Kolymvari was formerly a municipality in the Chania (regional unit), Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since t ...

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Chinese juniper ''Juniperus chinensis'', the Chinese juniper, is a species of plant in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to China, Myanmar, Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East. Growing tall, it is a very variable coniferous evergreen tree or shrub. A ...

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Stara Maslina Stara maslina (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Стара маслина, ) is one of the world's oldest olive trees, located near Stari Bar ( City of Bar) in Montenegro. The tree is said to be over 2,000 years old. It is a popular tourist attraction in t ...

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Tnjri Tnjri ( , from , which in the Karabakh dialect means ‘plane tree’) is a -year-old giant Oriental plane tree.Древний чинар // журнал " Наука и жизнь", № 2, 1980 (4-я стр. обложки) It is located on ...

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Oriental plane ''Platanus orientalis'', the Oriental plane, is a large, deciduous tree in the family Platanaceae, growing to or more, and known for its longevity and spreading crown. In autumn its deep green leaves may change to blood red, amber, and yellow. ...

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Houkisugi at Nakagawa is a 2000-year-old Japanese cedar (''Cryptomeria'') at Nakagawa Settlement, Yamakita town, Ashigarakami District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The tree was revered by locals because it prevented a great fire from spreading in 1904. There is sti ...

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Bald cypress ''Taxodium distichum'' (baldcypress, bald-cypress, bald cypress, swamp cypress; ; ''cipre'' in Louisiana) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States. Hardy and tough, this tree adapts to a w ...

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Coast live oak ''Quercus agrifolia'', the California live oak, or coast live oak, is an evergreen live oak native to the California Floristic Province. Live oaks are so-called because they keep living leaves on the tree all year, adding young leaves and sheddi ...

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Pedunculate oak ''Quercus robur'', the pedunculate oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. It is a large tree, native to most of Europe and western Asia, and is widely cultivated in other temperate regions. It grows on soi ...

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Stelmužė Oak The Stelmužė Oak () is a Quercus robur, common oak tree which grows in the former Stelmužė Manor park by Stelmužė tεɫˈmʊʒeːvillage, Zarasai district, Lithuania.Pedunculate oak ''Quercus robur'', the pedunculate oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. It is a large tree, native to most of Europe and western Asia, and is widely cultivated in other temperate regions. It grows on soi ...

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Zarasai Zarasai () is a city in northeastern Lithuania, surrounded by many lakes and rivers: to the southwest of the city is Lake Zarasas, to the northLake Zarasaitis, to the southeastLake Baltas, and the eastLake Griežtas. Lakes Zarasaitis and Griežtas ...

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Common hawthorn ''Crataegus monogyna'', known as common hawthorn, whitethorn, one-seed hawthorn, or single-seeded hawthorn, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It grows to about tall, producing hermaphrodite flowers in late spring. Th ...

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Mayenne Mayenne ( ) is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Il ...

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Rocky Mountain juniper ''Juniperus scopulorum'', the Rocky Mountain juniper, is a species of juniper native to western North America, from southwest Canada to the Great Plains of the United States and small areas of northern Mexico. They are the most widespread of all ...

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Árbol del Tule El Árbol del Tule ( Spanish for The Tree of Tule) is a tree located in the church grounds in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately east of the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is a Mo ...

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Montezuma cypress ''Taxodium mucronatum'', commonly known as Montezuma bald cypress, Montezuma cypress, or ahuehuete, is a species of ''Taxodium'' that is primarily native to Mexico and Guatemala, with a few populations in the southwestern United States. Ahuehue ...

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Santa María del Tule Santa María del Tule is a town and a municipality in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is part of the Centro District in the Valles Centrales region. It is located SE of the city of Oaxaca on Highway 190. The town and municipality are named f ...

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Baikushev's pine Baikushev's pine () is a coniferous tree from the species '' Pinus heldreichii'' (Bosnian pine) situated in the Pirin mountains of southwestern Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It ...

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Kauri ''Agathis'', commonly known as kauri or dammara, is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees, native to Australasia and Southeast Asia. It is one of three extant genera in the family Araucariaceae, alongside '' Wollemia'' and ''Araucaria'' (being ...

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Waipoua Forest The Waipoua Forest is a forest, on the west coast of the Northland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It preserves some of the best examples of kauri forest remaining in New Zealand. It is notable for having two of the largest living kauri ...

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, , Oldest tree in New Zealand. Its name translates as "Father of the Forest". , - , Cis Henrykowski , , 1270 , ,

Common Yew ''Taxus baccata'' is a species of evergreen tree in the family Taxaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe and Southern Europe, as well as Northwest Africa, and parts of Southwest Asia.Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe'' ...

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Henryków Lubański Henryków Lubański () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubań, within Lubań County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Lubań, and west of the regional capital Wrocław. ...

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ) is a historical and geographical region mostly located in Poland with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany. It is the western part of the region of Silesia. Its largest city is Wrocław. The first ...

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Villa de Merlo Villa de Merlo is a small city in the Department of Junín, Province of San Luis, Argentina. It is administered by a mayor, currently former Provincial Senator Gloria Petrino.

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Bchaaleh Bchaaleh (Arabic: بشعله), alternatively spelled Bcheale, Bchealeh or Bshaaleh, is a village in the Batroun District of the North Governorate in Lebanon. It had 1,456 eligible voters in the 2009 elections, and the residents mainly belonged t ...

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, Folk legend also ascribes The Sisters as the source of the olive branch returned to Noah's Ark at the waning of the

Biblical Flood The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre- creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah's ark. The Bo ...

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Olive Tree of Mouchão The Olive Tree of Mouchão () is a tree of the species ''Olea europaea'', considered a since 2007. It is located in the parish of Mouriscas, a municipality of Abrantes, Portugal. It came in second place for the Tree of the Year in both 2020 and ...

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Mouriscas Mouriscas is a Portuguese ''freguesia'' ("civil parish"), located in Abrantes Municipality, in Santarém District The District of Santarém ( ) is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal's West and Tagus Valley region. The district cap ...

Abrantes Abrantes () is a concelho, municipality in the central Médio Tejo Subregion, Médio Tejo subregion of Portugal. The population was 39,325, in an area of . The municipality includes several parishes divided by the Tagus River, which runs through ...

, In 2016, José Luís Lousada, a researcher at the

University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro The University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD; Portuguese: ''Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro'') is a public university located in the north-eastern city of Vila Real, Portugal. It became a public university in 1986, altho ...

, estimated the tree's age at approximately 3350 years using dendrometry. According to this assessment with an estimate age precision of 2%, it is considered the oldest tree in Portugal.

Clonal trees

As with all long-lived plant and fungal species, no individual part of a

clonal colony A clonal colony or genet is a group of genetically identical individuals, such as plants, fungi, or bacteria, that have grown in a given location, all originating vegetatively, not sexually, from a single ancestor. In plants, an individual in ...

is alive (in the sense of active

metabolism Metabolism (, from ''metabolē'', "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. The three main functions of metabolism are: the conversion of the energy in food to energy available to run cellular processes; the co ...

) for more than a very small fraction of the life of the entire clone. Some clonal colonies may be fully connected via their

root systems In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often below the surfa ...

, while most are not actually interconnected, but are genetically identical clones which populated an area through

vegetative reproduction Vegetative reproduction (also known as vegetative propagation, vegetative multiplication or cloning) is a form of asexual reproduction occurring in plants in which a new plant grows from a fragment or cutting of the parent plant or specializ ...

. Ages for clonal colonies, often based on current growth rates, are estimates.

Notes

References

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Non-clonal trees with verified ages

Non-clonal trees with estimated ages

Clonal trees

See also

Notes

References