Scarlet Begonia,
Did some reading up on the Bristlecone Pine and the Huon Pine.
Bristlecone Pines Huon pine is one of the slowest-
growing and longest living
plants in the world. It can grow to an age of 3000 years or more. Only the bristle-cone pine of North America lives longer.
Read the second one, referr's to the
Huon Pine Being second in age only to the Bristlecone Pine.
International headlines were made with the discovery of a stand of Huon pines on the west coast that is more than 10,000-years-old. All the trees are male and are genetically identical. No individual tree in the stand is 10,000-years-old, rather the stand itself has been in existence for that long.
I went and checked it out..
My son reads the Guiness Book of World Records everynight, and we have got that one down pat!!!
So, when you said the other pine, I thought, just maybe Guiness had a boo~boo????
But according to those articles, they were right!
There's some good reading in both articles about each kind of
tree!!!
Weezie