Feb 18, 2012
#380: “The sequoias and redwoods of the American West Coast are not the oldest living trees in the world. The honor belongs to the macrozamia trees of Australia, which lives 5,000 to 7,000 years and, some claim, may even reach 15,000 years.”
False.
Claims of up to 12,000 years have been made on the macrozamia trees’ age, and those trees were around in the dinosaurs' time. But the method for measuring the macrozamia’s age is very inaccurate, with inconsistent results. So in reality, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine named Methuselah is the oldest tree in the world at over four thousand years old.
