A lush green forest in southern Chile might be home to the world's oldest tree after a new study found that an ancient alerce tree known as 'great grandfather' could be more than 5,000 years old.
An Alerce is pictured in a forest at the Alerce Costero National Park in Los Rios, Chile, January 17, 2020. Picture taken January 17, 2020. Jonathan Barichivich/Handout via REUTERSSANTIAGO, May 26 - A lush green forest in southern Chile might be home to the world's oldest tree after a new study found that an ancient alerce tree known as "great grandfather" could be more than 5,000 years old.
Jonathan Barichivich, the scientist who led the study, said the sample they extracted and other dating methods suggest the tree is up to 5,484 years old."This method tells us that 80% of all possible growth trajectories give us an age of this living tree greater than 5,000 years," Barichivich said. "There is only a 20% chance that the tree is younger."
"If one compares it with the trees already dated where we count all the rings, it would make it one of the oldest living trees on the planet," Barichivich said.
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