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Spruce

January 30, 2009 by Anonymous, 42 weeks 4 days ago
Comment id: 34120

True it may be the oldest cloning tree....Yet it is not the same tree no matter it's age...the pines in California are the same tree without and self cloning or reproduction through "rebirth" through base push or Root push.
Let us Clarify "Oldest Living Tree" as a single tree that does not clone itself through bark\base push or root growth,for if this is true the louisiana Privet a natorious root cloner has never died and continues to prolificate through root push...
Ok PEOPLES a TREE is a single organism that grows up and does not do base or root push...heck we got some cypresses that are 500-700 years old and they grow slow...LOL :o)

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