The oldest living tree
If trees had birthday parties, there’s one tree in the United States
that would need more than 4,000 candles on its birthday cake!
Trees live much longer than people or animals do. A big oak tree, with a
trunk so thick that you can’t get your arms around it, may be hundreds
of years old. The big redwood trees in California are thousands of years
old.
The oldest known tree in the United States lives in a mountain forest in
California. It’s a gnarled, twisted bristlecone pine tree that’s more
than 4,600 years old. It is one of the oldest living things in the
world.
bristlecone pine
