Methuselah

Philipp Fröhlich's painting (189L), showing Methuselah, the ancient bristlecone pine tree.

In the White Mountains of eastern California there is an ancient bristlecone pine forest where one of the oldest living beings on earth still grows: a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) known as Methuselah. The tree is named after the oldest figure in the Old Testament, Methuselah, who according to the Bible lived for […]

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