METHUSELAH TREE

Methuselah is a 4845-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva tree growing high in the White Mountains of into County in eastern California. For many years it was the world's oldest known living non-clonally organism, until superseded by the discovery in 2013 of another bristlecone pine in the same area with an age of 5065 years germination in 3051 BC.

The tree grows somewhere between 2,900 and 3,000 m 9,500 and 9,800 ft above sea level in the "Methuselah Grove" in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest within the Into National Forest. Methuselah's exact location is undisclosed to protect it from vandalism.

Methuselah was 4,789 years old when sampled likely in 1957 by Edmund Schulman and Tom Harlan, with an estimated germination date of 2832 BC. Methuselah was for many years considered the world's oldest living tree, until the 2013 announcement of the discovery of an older bristlecone pine.