While we’re enjoying trees as a rich metaphor for our lives, I thought I would toss in this bit of trivia.
Methuselah, is a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, and the oldest known non-clonal living organisms still alive, at around age 4,839 years. Bristlecone pines grow in isolated groves at and just below the tree line, on dry, cold, windswept mountaintop.
(Info. paraphrased and ripped-off from a number of online resources)
4 responses so far ↓
Bilbo // May 26, 2008 at 12:23 am |
That’s a butt-ugly tree.
appose // May 28, 2008 at 2:56 pm |
appose says : I absolutely agree with this !
Dad // May 30, 2008 at 10:42 am |
5/30/08:
You are far from a Methusela, but you are a year older today.
Happy birthday,
Love, Dad
Anonymous // December 29, 2008 at 7:13 pm |
booooooooooo