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Top 5 oldest living individual (non-clonal) trees

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Verified age — Oldest organisms

Snapshot · 2026-05-31

  1. 1

    Methuselah (Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, USA)

    ~4,668 years

  2. 2

    Alerce Milenario / Gran Abuelo (Patagonian Cypress, Chile)

    ~3,655 years (verified; ~5,484 claimed)

  3. 3

    The President (Giant Sequoia, USA)

    ~3,200 years (estimated)

  4. 4

    Fortingall Yew (Common Yew, UK)

    ~3,000 years (estimated)

  5. 5

    Italus (Heldreich's Pine, Italy)

    ~1,238 years (oldest in Europe with verified cross-dating)