Methuselah (pine tree)
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Methuselah is a 4,858-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. It is recognized as the non-clonal tree with the greatest con
The Methuselah Grove
Prometheus (tree)
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Prometheus was the world's oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States. The tree was at least 4,86
Methuselah (pine tree)
…age estimate, due to a missing core. Salzer's estimate is approximately 4,669 years old as of 2019. Another bristlecone specimen, WPN-114, nicknamed "Prometheus", was more than 4,862 years old when cut down in 1964, with an estimated germination date of 2880 BC. A dendrochronology, based on these trees and other…
The stump (lower left) and some remains of the Prometheus tree (center), in the Wheeler Bristlecone Pine Grove at Great Basin National Park near Baker, Nevada
The grove in which Prometheus grew, with the headwall of Wheeler Peak in the distance
The stump of the Prometheus tree