#Methuselah tree

[graveyardrabbit]

textures and colors of the bark of Methuselah the coast redwood

#my photos #California #San Mateo County #El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve #Methuselah tree #redwoods #coast redwood #trees #was absolutely entranced by the variations in the tree bark

[sweaty-confetti]

anybody else violently emotional about methuselah the bristlecone pine tree. because of its age and all that but specifically because its location wasn’t disclosed to the public until very recently. you can go to the grove and know that somewhere there’s a nearly 5,000 tree nearby. i wonder if you can feel it. and the location. they were worried someone would hurt it. someone would hurt that 5,000 year old god of a tree. we know where it is now. but still. something about the protection of it and having it nestled in among a group of other trees that protect it i’m emotional

#emo moss talks #Nature #wildlife #trees #ancient trees #megaflora #sort of? #methuselah #methuselah tree #nature conservation

[rjzimmerman]

Great Basin bristlecone pine trees endure in harsh conditions that other vegetation cannot withstand.

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

Before the Egyptians built the Pyramids, before Jesus was born, before the Roman Empire formed or collapsed, the trees were here.

Ten thousand feet up in the White Mountains of central California, in a harsh alpine desert where little else survives, groves of gnarled, majestic Great Basin bristlecone pines endure, some for nearly 5,000 years. Their multicolor trunks bend at gravity-defying angles, and their bare branches jut toward the sky, as if plucked from the imaginations of Tim Burton or J.K. Rowling.

“Bristlecones are kind of magical that way,” said Constance Millar, an ecologist who for more than three decades has been studying the pines, which grow only in California, Nevada and Utah. Wandering the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in Inyo County, where these conifers have eked out an existence for millenniums, she said, “gives you that sense of infinity.”

These trees, however, face a number of challenges that stem primarily from a changing climate. Severe drought in the West is fueling megafires that have destroyed giant sequoias and redwoods, once thought to be largely fire-resistant. And Dr. Millar recently published research revealing that bark beetles, exploding in population amid warmer temperatures, are, for the first time, killing Great Basin bristlecones.

#california #bristlecone pines #Methuselah tree

[unbfacts]

#Oldest living tree #tree #great basin brstlecone #Methuselah

[boyczar]

Things Younger Than Sharks

#the rockies #saturns rings #polaris #trees #pictured is methuselah the oldest tree in ca #sharks #what a powerful animal #how i fear them yet so desperately wish to befriend them… #what separates them from us? #what separates me from you? #do they hold the wisdom of the collective consciousness within them? do they know how to access it? #what if i could help them? #what if they could help me? #mine

[ancientstarrydynamo]

Moist

#photography #macro photography #nature #creek #lichen #methuselah's beard #trees #wet #moist #fall #autumn

[enevera]

showed my aunt a cool tree in my neighborhood and now she and my cousins and i might be doing a trip out to pando this is the win of the century

#its a very cool tree and she got out of the car to take a pic lol #and then i told of pando and it spiraled from there <3 #i love pando i think its like probably the coolest tree ever #sorry to methuselah and general sherman who are also very cool #there are so many cool trees in the world wah

[empyrisan]

what's your favourite plant?

I'm a big fan of Methuselah...

(Photo by Yen Chao, via Flickr)

He's a 4,789 year old Great Basin bristlecone pine tree. He starred in The Legend of Korra as the Tree of Time.

#tori talks #methuselah #trees #plants

[thepastisalreadywritten]

#Great Grandfather #Fitzroya cupressoides #cypress tree #Methuselah #Patagonian cypress #dendrochronology #Anibal Henriquez #Chile #South America #World's Oldest Tree #Alerce Milenario #Alerce Costero National Park #Valdivia

[eucanthos]

Methuselah   (germinated ca. 2830 BC) 

Methuselah is located between 2,900 and 3,000 m (9,500 and 9,800 ft) above sea level in the "Methuselah Grove" in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest within the Inyo National Forest, California. Its exact location is secret.

Photograph: Piriya Photography/Getty Images

According to research released last week, this ancient bristlecone pine will be 4,851 years old this year (2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/02/the-methuselah-tree-and-the-secrets-of-earths-oldest-organisms

#tree #trees #age #Methuselah #secret #odd

[thorsenmark]

Seeing the Sights of the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking the Methuselah Walk in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest with a view looking to the northeast to a nearby pair of trees. My thinking in composing this image was to capture the entirety of the trees from top to bottom including some landscape at the base as well as blue skies above to add to a more complete setting for these trees. Using a portrait orientation also allowed me to better achieve that image captured.

#Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest #Azimuth 53 #Blue Skies #California and Oregon Road Trip #Day 2 #DxO PhotoLab 5 Edited #Forest #Forest Landscape #Forest Mountain #Great Basin Bristlecone Pine #Great Basin Ranges #Hillside of Trees #Intermountain West #Inyo National Forest #Landscape #Landscape - Scenery #Looking NE #Methuselah #Methuselah Grove #Methuselah Walk #Mountains #Mountains in Distance #Mountains off in Distance #Mountainside #Nature #Nikon D850 #No People #Outside #Pinus longaeva #Portfolio

[graveyardrabbit]

#my photos #California #San Mateo County #El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve #Methuselah tree #redwoods #coast redwood #trees

[mossandfog]

Meet Methuselah, The World's Oldest Tree

The great pyramids of Egypt. The Roman Empire. Alive through all of them and still gripping to life today, a tough, gnarled tree has been quietly perched on a mountain in California. Within the White Mountains of California, an ancient bristlecone pine stands as the ultimate testament to resilience and the passage of time. The tree is known as Methuselah, this remarkable tree is considered one of…

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#oldest #4800 years #Bristlecone Pine #Inyo National Forest #Methuselah #oldest living thing #oldest tree on earth #oldest trees #where is the oldest tree #wonders of California #wonders of the world

[preacherman316]

Increasing Your Capacity

Methuselah is said to be alive and flourishing. No, not the ancient antediluvian in Genesis, but a date palm tree grown from a 2,000 year old seed. According to Smithsonian Magazine, as well as National Geographic, the antique seed was discovered at the remains of Masada, an ancient fortification perched on a rock plateau in southern Israel. The seed was planted and has grown into a flourishing…

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#George Bernard Shaw #H. B. Wells #John Maxell #Lion King #Methuselah Date Palm Tree

[bumgall]

@jenny-jinya I could see you making a mimi-novel of this transcript and have it be death (and/or life) having this chat with "Methuselah:"

(Original documentary, I think?)

#loving reaper #bgoriginal.mel #methuselah #tree #bristlecone #pbs #nova #long video #documentary #poetry #poem #art #bgideas.mel #Youtube

[mythbearer]

Considering changing my user as I enter into this new era.

#its between katabasismyth and methuselahtree #both of these hold meaning to me #katabasis is the hero's journey to the underworld and his journey back unscathed #the methuselah tree is the oldest thing ever to live; a tree that refuses to die