Tough and rugged as a movie outlaw, the Aleppo pine‘s asymmetrical shape, leaning habit, sparse foliage, haphazard branching pattern ... tree in Northern Africa and the Middle East, even if the ...

Once the timeline exists, the age of similar wood (e.g., from a nearby house) can be established by pattern-matching. The ultimate tree-ring chronology ... is a bristlecone pine, and the world's ...

“The inner part of the wood was like ... sections of the pine’s roots, which helped them determine when the tree germinated. They also cross-dated surviving ring patterns in the trunk with ...

Scientists have discovered a new contender for the oldest tree in the world, potentially bumping California’s ancient bristlecone pine tree from ... a narrow plug of wood from the tree.