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Oldest and most precious trees from around the world (insights into religion and history)
Aug 15, 2017 5:23 PM
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TheBoulder111
Whoa hampton, didn't expect to see that on this list!
mrsanf
While hiking through Germany I "met" several "1000 year old oaks"..
Caveman3A
Pinchot Sycamore: Simsbury CT 2-300 years old http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinchot_Sycamore
enjin
The portal to hell is a tree in NJ, seems legit.
somedudeyoudontknow
Its missing the Tule Tree from Oaxaca
HowlingGiraffe
There's a "moon tree" planted in Kings Dominion amusement park (Doswell, VA). Saw it the other day.
Trea47
Been to the Tree of Life!
ElMigrante99
Where is the goddamned Giving Tree! He gave that boy everything.
GucciSaddlebags
Fuck the trees I wanna know about this legendary game of cards
antmansclone
Chandelier Tree - not anymore. .-(
wastewanderer
That was the Pioneer Cabin Tree that fell, the Chandelier tree is still there. I drove up to see it this past June.
NVGoddesscottage
The oldest bristle cone pine tree in America was cut down in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada by an idiot state worker counting rings 4 survey.
HolyOldMackinaw
Not really how that happened at all
Crazy49er
I have many questions but I think the most notable is why the hell this is made to look like a coupon book?
Lillae
I think it's more that they just didn't realize which tree they were cutting, or didn't know its significance until after.
Entourage
I was wondering the same shit. Also wondering why Hyperion isn't on here, but two other trees where I'm from are...
xezuno
Yeah go Athens
Berethian
No Ankerwyke Yew? Pfft.
letsnotandsaywemight
Where is Pando?
MiroDerChort
Shady lady? It's basically a tree...
TeenageMightyMutantMorphingNinjaPowerTurtleRangers
Even Anne Frsnks tree is dead
chickenuggit
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ArcaneConjecture
As a New Yorker, the "Devil's Tree" doesn't surprise me at all. I always suspected the portal to Hell would be in New Jersey.
GoodEveningThisIsWhatAButtDoesPBBPPBBTT
Sterd
Irminsul is quite a notable tree also. Considering it was a holy tree in the Germanic faith, it should be on this list.
cryogenian
So, this is a family tree? Bwa ha ha I'll see myself out.
delphigod
The larch. The Larch.
Gastronauticon
Check out the ancient Röjsu Ash. It grows out of a bronze age burial mound. Its Gaimanesque! http://www.storakarlso.se/upplev/rundtur/rojsu/
NipplesTheEnchiIada
I forget the nae of it, but the currently known oldest tree in the world is protected so much by scientists that the government keeps 1/2
NipplesTheEnchiIada
it's location a secret. 2/2
SomethingSomethingTraLaLa
It's a bristlecone pine, they live forever. Aptly named Methuselah.
amishmistress
I actually did a report and presentation on it my second year at college for my Dendrology class. My professor was surprised I knew about it
milknosugar
Number 4. The Larch.
37bushelsofpotatoesx2
The Larch.
SillyValentine
How drunk you'd have to be to fell the loneliest tree on the planet in the middle of the biggest desert in the world?
TheGameDoctor
Like 10 drunk
nighttmindd
It's hilarious. Literally the only tree for 250 miles in any direction. Smack in the middle of the Sahara.
RyanMcParty
Prometheus - how tf do you accidentally cut down a tree. "Whoops, muh chainsaw!"
Textuality
That one boggled me too. "Whups, I accidentally cut down this massive tree! Clumsy me!"
HeadFullOfEmpty
Yeah, I hope someone kicked him in the nuts immediatly afterwards
geonerd
He was doing a ring sample, and his coring drill got stuck. He asked for permission to cut it down to retrieve it, and counted the rings...
Banjostory
It's not phrased well. It was cut down intentionally, but they didn't know how old it was when they did it.
Naureleclipse
they were using a screw-core to obtain a sample when it broke off inside the tree, they cut the tree down to get it back(1/2)
Naureleclipse
and thats when they realized the age of the tree. they found another nearby almost as old that has been hidden from the general public since
ArchangelsBlade
Naureleclipse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree) is 4849 years old. there's another that's said to be 5062 years old but has not been named
hygroovy
Merlin's oak is in california, despite carmarthen being in Wales, UK? Did the Americans nick it?
devasto
Probably
SexyAttackHelicopter
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin%27s_Oak
hygroovy
According to that, it's not 2000 years old, not alive, and not in California. Is anything on this image true!?
SexyAttackHelicopter
I just keep looking for the 9gag cancer symbol but dont see one..
TezuNii
Probably during WW2, a lot of shit went missing from Britain during that time
Areanywittynamesnottaken
What else went missing
TezuNii
A lot of buildings