Old Tjikko, Sweden
Old Tjikko is a 9,550 year old Norway Spruce tree, located on Fulufjället Mountain of Dalarna province in Sweden. Old Tjikko is the world’s oldest living individual clonal tree. It stands at 5 meters (16 ft) tall.
The age of the tree was determined by carbon dating of the root system under the tree, not by counting tree rings. The trunk itself is estimated to be only a few hundred years old, but the tree as a whole may have survived for much longer due to a process known as layering (when a branch comes in contact with the ground, it sprouts a new root), or vegetative cloning (when the trunk dies but the root system is still alive, it may sprout a new trunk).
Given the estimated age, the tree is supposed to have sprouted around 7550 BCE. The invention of writing (and thus, the beginning of recorded history) did not occur until around 4000 BCE.
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