Сосна долговечная (Pinus longaeva)

Distribution map (USGS 1999. Red indicates P. longaeva, green indicates P. aristata.

Есть сведения, что эта сосна может жить больше 5000 лет...
А растет...US: California, Nevada & Utah. Subalpine and at the upper (rarely, lower) treeline; elevations 1700-3400 m ( Kral 1993).

Oldest

The oldest known living specimen is the "Methuselah" tree, 4,789 years, age verified by crossdating, sampled by Schulman and Harlan in the White Mountains of CA. I'm not sure when that age was determined, but Schulman found the tree in 1957 and he died in 1958, so it seems likely the tree had 4,789 rings (crossdated) in the summer of 1957, in which case the tree was 4,832 years old in 2000. In 2006, it is 4,838 and still going.

An age of 4,844 years was determined post-mortem (after being cut down) for specimen WPM-114 from Wheeler Peak, NV. The age is largely crossdated (Brown 1996). It seems likely that trees exceeding 5,000 years exist.