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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
TIL about Prometheus, a bristlecone pine that was unfortunately cut down in 1964, where it was discovered the tree was at least 4,800 years old at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(tree)
I found out about it through Caroline Landau's work where she cast blown glass of 3D scanned remnants of the tree.