It's growing in the Dalarna province of Sweden. Carbon-14 dating confirmed the age of this tenacious, ancient spruce tree.
Previously, pine trees in North America have been cited as the oldest at 4,000 to 5,000 years old.Golly. Imagine that. New scientific information contradicting old scientific information, and the evidence followed ledes to a new conclusion.
For many years the spruce tree has been regarded as a relative newcomer in the Swedish mountain region. "Our results have shown the complete opposite, that the spruce is one of the oldest known trees in the mountain range," says Leif Kullman, Professor of Physical Geography at Umeå University.
~Beware of dogma.
