Slovenia Travel Blog

Trees, unlike other living beings can achieve great longevity in some cases amounting to several thousand years. Remain inert surviving the passage of time and seeing how events happen and generations.

Given that some species have no rings on the trunk with which date his age, being necessary to use other techniques, and in other cases it has rounded out his age, we’re going to present to the world’s oldest trees.

Sunland Baobab. With a name known to a copy of baobab situated in South Africa. The carbon test has given an approximate age of 6000 years. An interesting fact to mention that the hollow of its trunk are home to a winery and a bar.

Prometheus was a tree, belonging to a variety of pine, which was in Nevada (USA), with an approximate age of 5000 years. Was cleared in 1964 for research purposes, ignoring the seniority he had.

Methuselah is the biblical name which has been named to a pine tree about 4800 years old. It is located within the Old Forest in California (United States) but not with more information on their location and protect it against vandalism.

Llangernyw Yew is an ancient yew tree at the entrance of the cemetery of a small village in North Wales. Its age is estimated at 4000 years and has its own local legend has it that is inhabited by a spirit.