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5,000-year-old ‘Great Grandfather’ trees
May 22 , 2023
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- In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years.
- The tree is Known as the "Great Grandfather."
- It is a Fitzroya cupressoides, a type of cypress tree that is endemic to the south of the continent.
- The trunk of this tree measuring four meters (13 feet) in diameter and 28 meters tall.
- The sample extracted and other dating methods suggest that the tree is up to 5,484 years old.
- The estimated age would beat the current record-holder-Methuselaha, a 4,853-year-old bristlecone pine tree in California of USA, by more than half a millennium.
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