Scientists have identified a cluster of spruce trees in the Dalarna Province of Sweden as being the oldest in the world. The Norway spruce trees were found in a mountainous region in Western Sweden.
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Carbon dating tests have revealed one of the trees to have taken root around 8000 years ago, which officially makes it the world’s oldest tree, taking over from the 4,733-year-old “Methuselah” Great Basin bristlecone pine in California’s White Mountains.
The trees were earlier believed to be around 3000 years old. Scientists estimate that these were some of the first trees to grow after the end of the Ice Age.