🌳 In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years and is in the process of being recognised as the oldest in the world. Read the full story here 👇
The 'Great Grandfather' tree, 28 metres tall and four metres in diameter, is in the process of being certified as the oldest on the planet at more than 5,000 years, older than the Methuselah pine of the United States, which was identified as the oldest in the world at 4,850 years. Picture: AFP
The Great Grandfather lies on the edge of a ravine in a forest in the southern Los Rios region, 800 kilometers to the south of the capital Santiago.It is a Fitzroya cupressoides, a type of cypress tree that is endemic to the south of the continent. It lives alongside other tree species, such as coigue, plum pine and tepa, Darwin’s frogs, lizards, and birds such as the chucao tapaculo and Chilean hawk.Park warden Anibal Henriquez discovered the tree while patrolling the forest in 1972. He died of a heart attack 16 years later while patrolling the same forest on horseback.
In 2020, Barichivich and Lara managed to extract a sample from the Great Grandfather using the longest manual drill that exists, but they did not reach the center.
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