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Pinus longaeva
Also called Bristlecone Pine, Intermountain Bristlecone Pine, Ancient Pine, Western Bristlecone Pine, Ancient Bristlecone Pine
A long-lived, slow-growing pine of high mountains in the Great Basin, grown as an ornamental and admired for its great age. It needs cold winters, full sun and very well-drained soil.
Pinus longaeva (commonly referred to as the Great Basin bristlecone pine, intermountain bristlecone pine, or western bristlecone pine) is a long-living species of bristlecone pine tree found in the higher mountains of California, Nevada, and Utah. In 1987, the bristlecone pine was designated one of Nevada's state trees.
Methuselah is a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is 4,858 years old and has been credited as the oldest known living non-clonal organism on Earth.
The species occurs in Utah, Nevada and Eastern California. In California, it is restricted to the White Mountains, the Inyo Mountains, and the Panamint Range, in Mono and Inyo counties. In Nevada, it is found in most of the higher elevations of the Basin and Range from the Spring Mountains near Las Vegas north to the Ruby Mountains, and in Utah, northeast to South Tent in the Wasatch Range. Due to the inaccessibility of much of the range and distribution of this species is incomplete, due to the difficult terrain it inhabits. Species distribution modelling has been used to better map its distribution, using topographic and spectral variables calculated from a geographic information system (GIS).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pinus longaeva by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
