08/14/2024
These trees already existed in the times of the Pharaohs, and are over 3,000 years old.
1. Vouves Olive Tree
The oldest olive tree in the world is over 3,000 years old. The tree is known as the “Vouves olive tree” and has a trunk measuring 12.5 m in circumference. The Vouves olive tree is around 3,350 years old and still bears fruit. In 1997, it was declared a protected natural monument.
2. Gran Abuelo
A tree in Chile may be the oldest on the face of the Earth. It is a specimen of the Fitzroya cupressoide species, whose popular name is Patagonian cypress or Patagonian larch. Known as "Gran Abuelo" ("Great-Grandfather" in Spanish) or Alerce Millennar, the tree may be 5,484 years old, according to a new study that has not yet been published.
3. General Sherman
General Sherman is a giant sequoia known for being the largest tree in the world. Its volume is estimated at 1,487 m³ and its age is between 2,300 and 2,700 years. Despite its volume, it is not one of the tallest trees in the world, having been estimated at 83.8 m tall, shorter than others in the park where it is located, Sequoia National Park, east of Visalia, in northern California.
4. Patriarch of the Forest
When its seed germinated in the soil of what is now the city of Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, in the interior of São Paulo, the world was a millennium away from the beginning of the Christian era; the Greek and Roman civilizations, pillars of Western culture, had not yet come into being. consolidated, and it would take 2500 years until the Portuguese ships arrived in Brazil. From this seed sprouted around the year 1000 BC the pink jequitibá that today is affectionately called Patriarca, due to its grandeur and for being the oldest Brazilian tree on record.
