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[–] TastehWaffleZ 40 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Silly question but what would it look like if you cut the tree? Would it have so many rings that it's essentially a solid color? Do trees stop growing rings at a certain point?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

i was there this summer! it's not this particular trunk that's 9000+ years old, but rather the entire organism. the current largest trunk is a few hundred years old, but the ground cover is older and the root system is how they figured out the total age.

fun fact, the largest organism ever recorded is also a tree. it's called pando and has 46000 stems stretching over 40ish hectares. it's basically a forest of clones.

[–] TastehWaffleZ 9 points 3 months ago

Incredible, thanks for the explanation!

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