Special trees
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Around the world we can find many special trees. Some trees are special because they are very old, other trees have a historic meaning. Trees are often used for sacred purposes, as mediators between heaven and earth on a consecrated location of worship.
Trees also have a symbolic meaning and can refer to 'man.' In the Garden of Eden there were two trees, the Tree of Life[2] and the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil[3].
Oldest trees
Great sugi of Kayano
Girth of 9.6 m. One of the four trees believed to be sacred in the precincts in a Shinto shrine. Estimated to be 2,300 years old.[4]
Methuselah
Methuselah is a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. Its measured age of 4,843 years makes it the world's oldest known living non-clonal organism.[5]
Old Tjikko
Old Tjikko[6], a 9,550 year old Norway Spruce, is the oldest known living individual clonal[7] tree.
Sarv-e Abarqu
Sarv-e Abarqu ("cypress of Abarqu") is a cypress tree in Abarkuh, Yazd, Iran. It has a height of 25 meters height and perimeter of 18 meters. It is estimated to be over four thousand years old and may be the oldest living thing in Asia.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ CheongPyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center
- ↑ Tree of Life (biblical) - Wikipedia
- ↑ Tree of the knowledge of good and evil - Wikipedia
- ↑ Great sugi of Kayano - Wikipedia
- ↑ Methuselah (tree) - Wikipedia
- ↑ Old Tjikko - Wikipedia
- ↑ A cell, group of cells, or organism that is descended from and genetically identical to a single common ancestor tree.
- ↑ Sarv-e Abarqu - Wikipedia
