It may not be much to look at but at 9,000 years old, this is the world’s oldest tree

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The world’s oldest tree, a 9,500-year-old Norwegian Spruce named “Old Tjikko,” after Professor Leif Kullman’s Siberian husky, continues to grow in Sweden. Discovered in 2004 by Kullman, professor of Physical Geography at Umeå University, the age of the tree was determined using carbon-14 dating.

It may not be much to look at but at 9,000 years old, this is the world’s oldest tree

“During the ice age sea level was 120 meters lower than today and much of what is now the North Sea in the waters between England and Norway was at that time forest,” Professor Kullman told Aftonbladet. Winds and low temperatures made Old Tjikko “like a bonsai tree…Big trees cannot get as old as this.”

It may not be much to look at but at 9,000 years old, this is the world’s oldest tree

More info: National Geographic (h/t: mymodernmet, aftonbladet)

It may not be much to look at but at 9,000 years old, this is the world’s oldest tree

Image credits: Leif Kullman

It may not be much to look at but at 9,000 years old, this is the world’s oldest tree

Image credits: Carkrull

It may not be much to look at but at 9,000 years old, this is the world’s oldest tree

Image credits: Patrik Qvist

It may not be much to look at but at 9,000 years old, this is the world’s oldest tree

Image credits: IBL/Rex Features

It may not be much to look at but at 9,000 years old, this is the world’s oldest tree

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