http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080411/sc_nm/sweden_tree_dc;_ylt=AvwMFBo8jMSU60nCmzPzY5z737YB
Swedish spruce may be world's oldest living tree
Scientists have found a cluster of spruces in the mountains in western
Sweden which, at an age of 8,000 years, may be the world's oldest
living trees.
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The hardy Norway spruces were found perched high on a mountain side
where they have remained safe from recent dangers such as logging, but
exposed to the harsh weather conditions of the mountain range that
separates Norway and Sweden.
Carbon dating of the trees carried out at a laboratory in Miami,
Florida, showed the oldest of them first set root about 8,000 years
ago, making it the world's oldest known living tree, Umea University
Professor Leif Kullman said.
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