Remarkably Determined Trees (part 2)

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Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia


A tree Growing Through a Speed Limit Sign


A tree falls over and grows four more trees


This tree’s roots extend across a gap to the mainland to reach needed nutrients.


A Tree’s Root Spill Over The Sidewalk


Skates left hanging on a tree found years later.


This Tree Still Has Its Leaves Because Of The Light Shining On It.


This palm tree fell over and then grew right back up.


The wood on this chair is determined to still be a tree.


Someone added a little humor to this determined tree.


The Only Tree That Survived The Tsunami In Japan Between 70,000 Trees. Today Protected And Restored.


Coming back from a forest fire.


This tree grew out of the stump of another tree. Then the stump rotted away.

These images were originally posted on Bored Panda by Viktorija G.

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trees are part of our nature and there is a method which tells the age of a tree. Some trees are living legends and one of them is Great basin bristlecone pine which is 4,845 years old

Wow, can you post a picture of the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine or point me to a post? Thanks for the comment!

I read it on Wikipedia here is the link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_longaeva

Thanks for the link, learn something new everyday!

What an amazing sight....
The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical records, the organisms can withstand generations of development and change.

But which tree has been around the longest?

Until 2013, the oldest individual tree in the world was Methuselah, a 4,845-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in the White Mountains of California. Researchers at the Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research Group then announced the age of another P. longaeva also located in the White Mountains — this one 5,062 years old.

https://www.livescience.com/29152-oldest-tree-in-world.html

Thank you for that link, I found this statement amazing....

The tree's true age was revealed by carbon-14 dating its root system. According to a statement from Umeå University, scientists found four generations of spruce remains at the site, all with the same genetic makeup. Spruce trees can multiply with the root penetrating branches to produce exact copies of themselves, so while the individual trunk is younger, the organism has been cloning itself for at least 9,550 years.