The world’s oldest tree, known as “Old Tjikko,” is a 9,500-year-old Norwegian Spruce located in Sweden. It was named after Professor Leif Kullman’s Siberian husky. Discovered in 2004 by Kullman, a professor of Physical Geography at Umeå University, the tree’s age was determined using carbon-14 dating.
“During the ice age, the sea level was 120 meters lower than today, and much of what is now the North Sea, between England and Norway, was covered in forests,” Professor Kullman explained to Aftonbladet. Due to harsh winds and low temperatures, Old Tjikko has been kept small, resembling a bonsai tree. Kullman noted, “Big trees cannot survive to be as old as this one.”
More info: National Geographic
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