About 3 billion years ago, plants appeared on the earth. The original plants, the structure is extremely simple, the species is very poor, and they all live in the water; Over the long course of hundreds of millions of years, some plants have moved from water to land to live. The environmental conditions on land are different from those in the water, and the living conditions are diverse and changeable, and ancient trees are representative of them.
Ancient trees are the world's longest-lived creatures, but also human research on nature living fossils, there is an old Chinese saying called longevity without borders, although we have not seen the gods with our own eyes, but there are really ancient trees that live to ten thousand years. Here we take a look at the five oldest trees in the world.
1. African Dragon's Blood Tree
The "Dragon's Blood Tree" on the island of Canarya in Western Africa, which grows on the island of Canarya in northern Africa, is one of the longest-lived trees in the world, living for about 8,000 to 10,000 years, and is known as the "old life star" in the tree.
2. Swedish spruce
The Swedish spruce is the longest-lived tree in the world, discovered in 2004 and later named Old Tjikko. According to Mr. Research, the tree is 9500 years old and can continue to grow, which means it can live longer! The discovery of this tree also caused a sensation in the entire international biological community.
3. Japanese Jhomon Sugi tree
The tree, named Jhomon Sugi, grows on Yakushima Island in Japan, with a trunk that has a maximum circumference of 16.4 meters, but the core is severely corroded, and its age may be more than 7,000 years, making it one of the oldest trees on Earth.
4. Mas sarah foxtail pine
Maas sala foxtail pine, 5067 years old; A species called Maas sarah foxtail pine in California, USA, it is the oldest tree species in the world, and these trees grow in the mountains of Nevada and Utah. It can reach heights of 5 to 15 m and trunk diameters of 2.5 to 3.6 m. The bark is orange-yellow, and the leaves of the tree can remain green for 45 years.
5. Chinese Xuanyuanbai
XuanyuanBai, the "Huangling Ancient Cypress" in the Huangling Xuanyuan Temple in Shaanxi Province, is also known as "XuanyuanBai". It is rumored to have been planted by the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan himself. Xuanyuan Cypress towers in the Xuanyuan Temple at the foot of Qiaoshan Mountain, with a cypress genus, with a height of more than 20 meters and a bust circumference of 7.8 meters. Cypress is a monophyletic plant. After fieldwork by professionals, it is 5,000 years old. Although it has experienced more than 5,000 years of wind and frost, the dry body is beautiful, the branches and leaves are luxuriant, the canopy covers an area of 178 square meters, and the tree fence is known as "seven arms and eight salmus, and the knots in the knots are not counted". Since there is no other cypress tree in the world that is older than it, the British call it the "father of the cypress tree of the world".