Thank you! Isn’t it amazing how a rigid hierarchical categorization system fails everywhere you actually look into details?
See also category theory vs prototype theory.
The UK has quite a few ancient yew trees. Some may be over 2000 years old. Often they are in church grounds (because ones that weren't got cut down to make long bows perhaps?).
One of the many nice things about nature is that almost everything is interesting and unique in some particular way, be it longevity, size, or far more specific traits, across all species, all domains of natural science.
I like to imagine aliens visiting earth and walking straight past us and communing with Pando.
> Recent 2024 analysis confirmed it is at least 16,000 years old, with possibilities ranging up to 80,000 years, making it one of the oldest living organisms.
Related: There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...
Thank you! Isn’t it amazing how a rigid hierarchical categorization system fails everywhere you actually look into details? See also category theory vs prototype theory.
Related and also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees
The traveller tree looked the most interesting, like a peacock's feather.
https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2017/12/12/the-travel...
On mobile, this website seems to prevent you from pinch zooming in, which makes it slightly inconvenient to quickly zoom into the photos of the trees.
Can do it on Ironfox Android (quite a forbidding browser) without problems. Not even JavaScript is allowed here.
In Calabria — the very south of Italy — there this[0] 1000-years-old plane tree.
[0]https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platano_di_Vrisi
The UK has quite a few ancient yew trees. Some may be over 2000 years old. Often they are in church grounds (because ones that weren't got cut down to make long bows perhaps?).
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2025/08/ancient-yew-tr...
One of the many nice things about nature is that almost everything is interesting and unique in some particular way, be it longevity, size, or far more specific traits, across all species, all domains of natural science.
Wasn't sure which kind of trees to expect. :D
It's Red-Black Maple Syrup season!
I was expecting something closer to Van Emde Boas trees. :D
I like to imagine aliens visiting earth and walking straight past us and communing with Pando.
> Recent 2024 analysis confirmed it is at least 16,000 years old, with possibilities ranging up to 80,000 years, making it one of the oldest living organisms.
That would make as much sense as trying to speak with Whales.